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Say you have a module file called Greetings.pm6 that contains:
use v6;
module Greetings {
sub hello($name='World') {
say "Hello $name";
}
}
If you were to do: perl6 -e 'use Greetings; hello("moon");'
It would appropriately print "Hello moon";
If you were to go into the REPL, you will find some more mysterious
behavior:
> use Greetings; hello('Moon');
Hello Moon
> hello()
Could not find sub &hello
A new session:
> use Greetings;
> hello()
Could not find sub &hello
> use Greetings;
P
> hello()
Hello World
It seems that any module that exports a subroutine, does not have the
subroutine exported in the REPL unless you call the 'use' statement twice.
You can test this with a module included with Rakudo:
> use DateTime::strftime;
> strftime('%A', DateTime.now)
Could not find sub &strftime
> use DateTime::strftime;
P
> strftime('%A', DateTime.now)
Thursday
I am assuming this behavior is a bug and is not expected.
