[perl #59828] Rakudo parses equals sign in rule declaration, whereas STD doesn't

[jn...@jnthn.net via RT]

On Sun Oct 12 04:59:26 2008, masak wrote:
> r31879:
> 
> $ perl6 -e 'rule x = { x }'
> get_iter() not implemented in class 'Closure'
> [...]
> 
> STD considers this faulty syntax (and I do, too), but Rakudo
> apparently tries to make sense of it, and fails at runtime trying to
> apply prefix:<=> to the closure { x }.

As of GIT 1b7a3e3 this reports:

Malformed regex definition

As STD.pm does. Also pulled in those for methods and routines, so we
shouldn't get similar bugs in those.

Thanks,

Jonathan