I would say filing an issue might make sense in this case. Here is a related comment from Jonathan: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3222#issuecomment-539915286 – and it explicitly states that $. is a shortcut for method calling. Therefore, use of colon instead of braces should be a valid construct.
Best regards, Vadim Belman > On Nov 18, 2019, at 11:40 AM, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I take that back! What is the dollar sign doing there in the '$.print: ..." > example? > > Try it without the dollar sign. Right now you're calling .print on the > anonymous variable '$' > > -y > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:38 AM yary <not....@gmail.com > <mailto:not....@gmail.com>> wrote: > looks like a bug to me-file an issue on the rakudo GitHub > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 5:29 AM Raymond Dresens <raymond.dres...@gmail.com > <mailto:raymond.dres...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question related to the 'colon syntax' of Raku, which allows > you to call methods without parenthesis like this: > > class Foo > { > method print($x, $y) > { > say "bar: {$x}, {$y}" > } > } > > my $a = Foo.new; > > $a.print: 3, 5; # ...this is what i mean with "colon syntax" ;) > > It is possible to use this syntax to call methods on 'self' as well: > > class Bar is Foo > { > method printDefault > { > self.print: 8, 12 > } > } > > my $b = Bar.new; > > $b.printDefault; > > I use $. rather than 'self' in order to work with attributes inside > methods in my classes, well, ... mostly, because it does not seem > possible to do this (in rakudo, at least version 2019.07.1): > > class Baz is Foo > { > method printDefault > { > $.print: 8, 12 > } > } > > This yields a "Confused" error, stating that it expects a so-called > 'colon pair'. > > Is this intentional? Because I'm kind of confused as well about this, > > I can live with this 'syntactical quirk', but I just keep wondering > about it because I'd personally expect that this "$.methodname: $args" > variant should "just work" as well... > > ...so "what gives"? ;) > > Thanks for your insights! > > Regards, > > Raymond. > -- > -y
