What are callwith and samewith supposed to do? I thought callwith was supposed to run a subroutine of the same name of the current subroutine, but using the arguments I pass to it.
From the docs:
To me it sounds like inside the two-arity MAIN subroutine (i.e. MAIN($a,$b)) that callwith($x) would call MAIN($x).
But it doesn't:
multi MAIN ($a, $b) {
my $result = callwith("$a$b");
say "Got $result from MAIN(\$a)";
}
multi MAIN ($x) {
say "Hello $x";
return True;
}
$ perl6 callwith.p6 foo bar Use of uninitialized value $result of type Any in string context. Methods .^name, .perl, .gist, or .say can be used to stringify it to something meaningful. in sub MAIN at callwith.p6 line 3 Got from MAIN($a)
Then this definition of samewith makes it sound like calling samewith($x) from inside of the two-arity MAIN (i.g. MAIN($a, $b)) would try to call the two-arity MAIN again ("current candidate", right?).
But it actually calls the one-arity MAIN:
multi MAIN ($a, $b) {
my $result = samewith("$a$b");
say "Got $result from MAIN(\$a)";
}
multi MAIN ($x) {
say "Hello $x";
return True;
}
$ perl6 samewith.p6 foo bar Hello foobar Got True from MAIN($a)
So am I seeing correct behavior by callwith and samewith? If so, what am I misunderstanding? I'll gladly update the documentation once I understand this issue better.
I'm using Rakudo-Star-2018.01 on CentOS 7.4.1708.
