IMHO, the message is actually slightly worse. Now it's talking about an
invocant when there are no classes or methods involved!
-Scott
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Christian Bartolomaeus via RT <
bugs-comm...@bugs6.perl.org> wrote:
> The error message has changed slightly and now states that "Invocant
> requires an instance".
>
> $ perl6 -e 'sub f(Int $x where $x > 0) { say "yup" }; my Int $a; f($a);'
> Invocant requires an instance, but a type object was passed
> in method Bridge at src/gen/m-CORE.setting:5578
> in sub infix:<>> at src/gen/m-CORE.setting:5505
> in method ACCEPTS at src/gen/m-CORE.setting:3844
> in sub f at -e:1
> in block <unit> at -e:1
>
> Formerly the message said "Parameter '' requires an instance" (and the
> whole bug report is about the missing parameter name $x within this
> message).
>
> IMHO the current error message is good -- even without speaking about $x.
>
> So, is this closeable?
>
