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[perl #118519] ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ "▆ ▇ █␤, alas no"

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Elizabeth Mattijsen) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:46 UT

23:45:53] <TimToady> nr: say '▁' ... '█'
[23:46:07] <+camelia> rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«(timeout)»
[23:46:07] <+camelia> ..niecza v24-77-g2b14288: OUTPUT«▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █␤»
[23:46:17] <TimToady> rakudobug
[23:46:36] lizmat submits rakudobug

[perl #118505] Null PMC access when declaring constant for export twice

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Dagur) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:48:06 UT

5 => 5
Null PMC access in get_string()

On a related note, it's possible to re-declare constants. Not sure if
that's a bug or not.
1 => 1
1 => 2

[perl #118501] say EXPORT::ALL causes Null PMC access

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Dagur) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:12:06 UT

$ perl6
sub a() { ... }
Error while compiling block (source text: "say EXPORT::ALL\n"): Error
while compiling op call: Error while compiling block : Error while
compiling op call (source text: "say EXPORT::ALL\n"): Null PMC access in
find_method('handle')

$ perl6 --version
This is perl6 version 2013.05-251-gd3ae978 built on parrot 5.2.0 revision

[perl #118479] Untyped hashes are considered to be {Str}, but act differently from hashes typed with {Str}

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Elizabeth Mattijsen) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:39:02 UT

<lizmat> r: class A {}; my %h=A.new => 1; say %h; my %h2{Str}=A.new => 1; say %h2 # feels to me either both should fail, or both should work
[14:25:12] <+camelia> rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«("A<-465252350>" => 1).hash␤Nominal type check failed for parameter 'key'; expected Str but got A instead␤ in method STORE_AT_KEY at src/gen/CORE.setting:7122␤ in method STORE at src/gen/CORE.setting:7018␤ in block at /tmp/Au8hPaHP4v:1␤␤»

[perl #118467] [BUG] Required named occurring before slurpy wrongly considered a multi candidate in Rakduo

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Carl Mäsak") — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:27:49 UT

<masak> rn: multi foo(:$d!, *@f) {}; multi foo(*@f) { say "works" }; foo() #OK
<camelia> rakudo b2072f, niecza v24-75-g480a062: OUTPUT«works␤»
<masak> rn: multi foo(*@f, :$d!) {}; multi foo(*@f) { say "works" }; foo() #OK
<camelia> niecza v24-75-g480a062: OUTPUT«works␤»
<camelia> ..rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«Ambiguous call to 'foo'; these

[perl #118453] [BUG] Reassigning to matched-against string and then accessing submatches can lead to substr errors because of binding against the scalar container in Rakudo

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Carl Mäsak") — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:00:24 UT

<masak> ok, this is a fun one:
<masak> rn: my $s = 'pre x post'; $s ~~ /^ (<-[x]>+) 'x' (\N+) $/; $s =
~$0; say ~$1
<camelia> niecza v24-75-g480a062: OUTPUT« post␤»
<camelia> ..rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«Start of substr out of range. Is: 5,
should be in 0..4 [...]
<masak> I'm entirely with Niecza here.

[perl #118407] Importing sub using require causes Null PMC access

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Dagur) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:32:33 UT

sub abc() is export { say "hello" }

This works (given that it's NYI)
abc();
Trying to import symbols &abc from '/tmp/a.pm6', but it does not export
anything

Without the ampersand however,
Error while compiling block (source text: "require(\"/tmp/a.pm6\")
\"abc\"; abc();\n"): Error while compiling op call: Error while compiling

[perl #118397] [BUG] array binding causes failures to be thrown

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Brent Laabs) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:41:57 UT

labster: r: sub foo { X::IO::Dir.new(path=>'a', os-error=>'b').fail }; my
@a = foo(); 1;
camelia: rakudo b2072f: ( no output )
labster: r: sub foo { X::IO::Dir.new(path=>'a', os-error=>'b').fail }; my
@a := foo(); 1;
camelia: rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«Failed to get the directory contents of 'a':

[perl #112344] [BUG] Variable return types cause an error

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Will Coleda via RT") — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:48:19 UT

Current behavior:

$ cat a.pm
sub id(Any ::T $x) returns T {
$x

say id 42;

$ ./perl6 a.pm
Cannot type check against type variable T
in any type_check at src/gen/Metamodel.nqp:305
in sub id at a.pm:2
in block at a.pm:5

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #118389] [BUG] Cannot use constants with heredocs in Rakudo

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Carl Mäsak") — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:15:46 UT

<masak> r: constant FOO = q:to /EOF/;␤ OH HAI␤ EOF␤␤say FOO
<camelia> rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Premature heredoc consumption␤»
<masak> what in the world does "Premature heredoc consumption" mean? :(
<masak> is it unreasonable to want to put a heredoc string in a

[perl #118387] [BUG] LEAVE doesn't trigger when an exception is thrown

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Tadeusz Sośnierz) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:08:21 UT

S04 says:

LEAVE {...} [executes] at every block exit time (even stack unwinds from
exceptions)

Running perl6 version 2013.05-15-gcd5ca7c built on parrot 5.2.0 revision
RELEASE_5_2_0:

> sub foo { LEAVE { say "OK" }; die "died" }; foo()
died

According to the spec, this should also say OK

[perl #118343] Problem with Perl website?

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[perl #118361] Finding out long name of module fails

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org (Elizabeth Mattijsen) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:54 UT

[10:41:11] <lizmat> r: module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE } } # shouldn't this need to say (Foo::Bar) ???
[10:41:12] <+camelia> rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«(Bar)␤»
[10:53:53] <lizmat> TimToady: do you have an opinion on "module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE } } # shouldn't this need to say (Foo::Bar) ???"

[perl #118339] [BUG] Conspicuous lack of warning when uselessly providing a precedence on a multi operator in Rakudo

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Carl Mäsak") — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:57:51 UT

<flussence> rn: multi infix:<%>($lhs, Str $rhs) is looser(&infix:<xx>)
{ $lhs.join: $rhs }; say '........' xx 8 % "\n"
<camelia> rakudo b2072f, niecza v24-66-gaee6525: OUTPUT«........
........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........␤»
<flussence> those \s'es should be \n's...

[perl #118325] [BUG] $x div 0 dies immediately instead of resulting in a Failure in Rakudo

perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org ("Carl Mäsak") — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:58:23 UT

It's very frustrating not to be able to copy-paste the code from
pmichaud's talk. The future isn't fully here yet.

<masak> could someone help me reproduce pmichaud's bug, for the ticket?
<quietfanatic> rn: my $zero = 0; my $value = 32 div $zero; say 'alive'
<camelia> ..rakudo b2072f: OUTPUT«Divide by zero␤ in sub infix:<div> [...]