On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 11:31:59 -0800, pe...@mscha.org wrote: > Coercion type works quite nicely in signatures, e.g. > > sub foo(Int(Cool) $f) { > say $f.WHAT; > } > foo "42"; # (Int) > > but it doesn't work yet in variable declarations, e.g. > > my Int(Cool) $x; $x = "42"; # Coercion Int(Cool) is insufficiently > type-like to qualify a variable > > > Using Rakudo Star 2016.11: > This is Rakudo version 2016.11 built on MoarVM version 2016.11 > implementing Perl 6.c. >
Can you point to where the specification test suite (roast), old design docs, IRC, or the docs site indicating where this was planned? Thanks. -- Will "Coke" Coleda