# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak"
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<masak> how would you split a string into the first character and the
rest of the string in Perl 6?
<moritz> .split(/<at_pos(1)>/)
<jnthn> ooh
<moritz> nom: say 'foobar'.split(/<at_pos(1)>/).perl
<p6eval> nom acbec8: OUTPUT«No type check cache and no type_check
method in meta-object in method reify [...]
<jnthn> How in the hell...
<moritz> jnthn: indeed.
<moritz> I get the same output locally
* masak submits rakudobug
<jnthn> OK, what is at_pos doing... :)
<jnthn> Wild guess: using nqp::getattr somewhere it should be using
nqp::getattr_i :)
<moritz> erm, is it even spelled at_pos?
<moritz> I might as well be misremembering something
<masak> at the very least, it's an LTA error message.
<p6eval> nom acbec8: OUTPUT«=> <> at => <>»
<moritz> star: say 'foobar'.split(/<at(1)>/).perl
<p6eval> star 2012.01: OUTPUT«("f", "oobar").list»
<masak> \o/
<moritz> ok, it helps to spell it correctly :-)
<jnthn> \o/
<masak> so, error is in using something that doesn't exist :)
<masak> typical "programmer never tried this path" thinko :)
<jnthn> nom: say Any.^methods
<p6eval> nom acbec8: OUTPUT«eager elems end classify uniq infinite
flat hash list pick roll reverse sort values keys kv pairs Array grep
first join map min max minmax postcircumfix:<[ ]> at_pos all any one
none postcircumfix:<{ }> reduce ACCEPTS»
<masak> oh!
<moritz> well, at_pos comes from Any
<jnthn> There's an at_pos in Any
<masak> right.
<masak> so it does something completely different.
<moritz> yes.
<masak> and the regex engine gets sad.
<jnthn> And doesn't return a cursor which...yes, that. :)
<masak> I will report this as best I can :P
So, at_pos returns something which the regex engine didn't expect, and
instead of failing gracefully, it fails disgracefully. Please fix.
