Obviously, this is a wrong code snippet. I meant this:
my Str $a = 'x';
say $a<hello>;
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:29 PM, perl6 via RT <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org
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> Code:
> my Str $a = 'x';
> say $a{'hello'};
>
> Error:
> postcircumfix:<{ }> not defined for type Str
> in block <unit> at ./test.pl:3
>
> The problem is that there is no { } in the code.
>
> Sure, <> is converted to {' '} that's why you get that in the error
> message, but it does not justify a LTA error message.
>
> Also, why this is not caught during compile-time? It looks like there is
> enough information to do that.
>
>
