You can interpolate a method call in a string, but you need the parens.
say "$FruitStand.location() has $FruitStand.apples() apples in stock";
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 4:28 AM Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, right. $FruitStand.apples is not a direct access to the attribute,
> but a method invocation (a call to a method implicitly created by Raku), so
> it doesn't get interpolated within the string. So it should be outside the
> string or used with a code interpolation block.
>
> For example:
>
> say "Fruitstand in {$FruitStand.location} has {$FruitStand.apples}
> apples.";
>
> or
>
> say "Fruitstand in ", $FruitStand.location, "has ", $FruitStand.apples,
> " apples.";
>
> or the construct with the ~ concatenation operator that you used.
>
> Cheers,
> Laurent..
>
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> Le ven. 18 déc. 2020 à 23:55, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
> [email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> On 12/18/20 9:42 AM, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
>> > Hi Laurent, I get:
>> >
>> > Fruitstand in Fruit<140431957910656>.location has
>> > Fruit<140431957910656>.apples apples.
>> >
>> > [Rakudo v2020.10]
>> >
>> > Best, Bill.
>> >
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> From my notes in progress:
>>
>> -T
>>
>>
>> *** addressing values inside and object ***
>>
>> Reading:
>> say $FruitStand.apples
>> 400
>>
>> $FruitStand.apples.say
>> 400
>>
>> print $FruitStand.location ~ " has " ~ $FruitStand.apples ~"
>> apples in stock\n";
>> Cucamonga has 400 apples in stock
>>
>> Note: an "oops!". Separate the variables from the string, or else:
>> say "$FruitStand.location has $FruitStand.apples apples in
>> stock";
>> Fruit<79300336>.location has Fruit<79300336>.apples apples in
>> stock
>>
>> Writing (must be declared as "rw"):
>>
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