Carl MXXsak (via RT) wrote:
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> Chris Dolan writes the following to p6u:
>
> I'm learning about Match objects today. I can't assign $/ to a
> variable or pass it to a method.
This sounds a lot like
[perl #57094] [BUG] infix:= converts a PGE::Match to a Str, not a Match
> Is this a bug, or am I just
> confused? I get the following results. In both cases, $/ gets
> stringified instead of remaining as a Match instance.
>
> % ./perl6 -e 'if ("f" ~~ m/f/) { my Match $m = $/; }'
> Type check failed
> [...]
>
> or
>
> % ./perl6 -e 'sub foo(Match $m) { say $m; }; if ("f" ~~ m/f/) { foo($/); }'
> Parameter type check failed
> [...]
>
> % ./perl6 -v
> This is Rakudo Perl 6, revision 32120 built on parrot 0.8.0-devel
> for darwin-thread-multi-2level.
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