On Mon Dec 14 05:30:27 2009, masak wrote:
> This be Rakudo 7ef386.
>
> $ perl6 -e 'class A {}; class B does A {}'
> Method '!select' not found for invocant of class ''
>
> That should not be an error at all according to the spec, IIRC; it
> should snapshot the class and use the result as a role.
I haven't seen any bit of the spec that actually says that. Until it
does, it's just spec-ulation. :-)
> But even if it
> were to throw an error, it could easily be a friendlier one than the
> one it throws now.
Indeed. We now give:
> class A {}; class B does A {}
Can only use does with a role, but A is not one
This is pretty much a dupe of another ticket that I already assigned as
needing spectests, so just resolving this one.
Thanks,
Jonathan
