On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 07:37:52AM +0000, Lloyd Fournier wrote:
> I think this is because .WHAT is a special case. It's not really a method
> which is what you need to make *.method work. *.WHAT will always return
> (Whatever) immediately.
You're correct that .WHAT is a special case. From S12, "Introspection":
These should all be considered built-in language primitives,
not true operators or methods, even if a given implementation
happens to implement one or more of them that way.
I suppose it's possible that *.WHAT should generate a WhateverCode object...
but I'm a little disinclined to that. A bit later S12 continues:
In general, use of these uppercased accessors in ordinary code
should be a red flag that Something Very Strange is going on.
(Hence the allcaps.) Most code should use Perl 6's operators that
make use of this information implicitly. For instance, instead of
$obj.WHAT === Dog
...
you usually just want:
$obj ~~ Dog
So I'd say this isn't actually a bug.
Pm
