On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 01:58:17 -0800, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > This works: > > ➜ .pick xx 10 given 1..6 > (6 3 1 1 5 1 6 3 4 2) > > But putting parens around the xx operation, breaks it: > > ➜ (.pick xx 10) given 1..6 > ((Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any) (Any)) > > The problem only seem to occur when $_ was set by a statement modifier > - not when it was assigned to manually or set by the block form of > 'given'. > > An example of a useful idiom which relies on putting parens around an > xx operation, is > (EXPRESSION xx *).first(CONSTRAINT) > for "keep retrying EXPRESSION until the result matches CONSTRAINT".
Thank you for the report. This is now fixed. Fix: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/1ee89b54074e80c Test: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/2f2998733a2d8132c
