> You overlooked a mistype. The subset expects "wuhn", you pass "whun" instead.
> Guess, the subset is wrong about it. :)
Yes indeed, that seems to be all it is. Thanks much.
And maybe I'll go back to monster names in my demos.
On 9/22/21, Vadim Belman <vr...@lflat.org> wrote:
>
> You overlooked a mistype. The subset expects "wuhn", you pass "whun"
> instead. Guess, the subset is wrong about it. :)
>
> Best regards,
> Vadim Belman
>
>> On Sep 22, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In this code I'm using multi-dispatch with a subset type that
>> makes string values special: "wuhn", "tew" and "thuree".
>>
>> use Test;
>>
>> multi sub whats_my_type (Str $item) {
>> return "This is a Str: $item";
>> }
>>
>> subset GoofyNum of Str where { $_ eq any( 'wuhn', 'tew', 'thuree' ) };
>> multi sub whats_my_type (GoofyNum $item) {
>> return "This is a GoofyNum string: $item";
>> }
>>
>> {
>> my ($ret, $arg);
>> $ret = whats_my_type('two');
>> like $ret, /<< Str >>/, "quoted string argument of 'two' is Str";
>>
>> $ret = whats_my_type('tew');
>> like $ret, /<< GoofyNum >>/, "quoted string argument of
>> 'wuhn' is 'goofy'";
>>
>> $arg = "one";
>> $ret = whats_my_type( $arg );
>> like $ret, /<< Str >>/, "string in var argument of '$arg' is Str";
>>
>> $arg = "whun";
>> $ret = whats_my_type( $arg );
>> like $ret, /<< GoofyNum >>/, "string in var argument of 'wuhn'
>> is 'goofy'";
>> }
>>
>>
>> I would think all four of these tests should pass, instead I see
>> the last one failing: for some reason there's a difference in the
>> case of a simple quoted string, and a string inside a variable.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>>
>> raku --version
>> Welcome to 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐝𝐨™ v2020.10.
>> Implementing the 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮™ programming language v6.d.
>> Built on MoarVM version 2020.10.
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux fandango 4.9.0-8-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.144-3 (2019-02-02) i686
>> GNU/Linux
>>
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