On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> Rakudo r32141 can understand unspaces consisting of a backslash
> followed by whitespace, but not unspace consisting of only a
> backslash.
>
> $ ./perl6 -e 'my %h; %h{"key"} = "value"; say %h\ {"key"}' # works fine
> value
> $ ./perl6 -e 'my %h; %h{"key"} = "value"; say %h\{"key"}' # fails
> Statement not terminated properly at line 1, near "\\{\"key\"}"
> [...]
>
> Same result for e.g. $a\++;
>
> S02 says that both of the above should work and be eqivalent.
STD.pm r22787 says it's a parse failure, and we're following that.
19:13 <pmichaud> std: my %h; %h{"key"} = "value"; say %h\{"key"};
19:13 <p6eval> std 22787: OUTPUT[parse failure]
So I suspect it's a bug in STD.pm, also.
Pm
