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named argument key pair parsed as a Pair argument (incorrectly), and vice versa (incorrectly), when called without parens see http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S06.html#Named_arguments 13:23:15 <diakopter> rakudo: sub foo($w=4){say $w.perl}; foo 'w' => 3; # $w is positional (a Pair); this is correct, I think. 13:23:17 <?? exp_evalbot ??> OUTPUT[:w(3)] 13:20:52 <diakopter> rakudo: sub foo(%w){say %w.perl}; foo 'w' => 3; # %w is positional (a Pair); this is correct, I think. 13:20:54 <?? exp_evalbot ??> OUTPUT[:w(3)] 13:23:33 <diakopter> rakudo: sub foo($w=4){say $w.perl}; foo w => 3; # $w is a positional parameter, but w is passed as a named argument, so this should fail with "not enough (positional) arguments" 13:23:39 <?? exp_evalbot ??> OUTPUT[:w(3)] 13:24:18 <diakopter> rakudo: sub foo(:$w=4){say $w.perl}; foo w => 3; # $w is a named parameter ($w should be 3), but produces a Pair (":w(3)") 13:24:19 <?? exp_evalbot ??> OUTPUT[:w(3)]