[perl #76400] [BUG] Null PMC access when doing 'say $foo::' (which shouldn't even parse) in Rakudo

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Tue Jul 06 09:19:10 2010, masak wrote:
> <p6eval> std 31559: OUTPUT«ok 00:01 111m␤»
> <TimToady> I didn't expect that to work :)
> <masak> std bug.
> * TimToady bug
> <TimToady> I'm not entirely sure how it parsed...
> <TimToady> oh, morename allows a final :: component, but that's not
> quite what you want here
> <TimToady> std: $defeat-the-name-checker::
> <p6eval> std 31559: OUTPUT«ok 00:01 108m␤»
> <masak> rakudo: $foo::; say "alive"
> <p6eval> rakudo 04a918: OUTPUT«alive␤»
> * masak submits rakudobug
> <TimToady> rakudo: $foo:: = 42; say $foo::;
> <p6eval> rakudo 04a918: OUTPUT«Null PMC access in getprop() [...]
> <masak> ok, that goes in the same ticket :)
> * masak upgrades the ticket to a Null PMC access
> <masak> rakudo: say $foo::
> <p6eval> rakudo 04a918: OUTPUT«Null PMC access in type() [...]

No more NPAs:

16:01 < [Coke]> rakudo: $foo:: = 42; say $foo::;
16:01 <+p6eval> rakudo 88c5a5: OUTPUT«42␤»
16:01 < [Coke]> rakudo: say $foo::
16:01 <+p6eval> rakudo 88c5a5: OUTPUT«Any()␤»

Closable with tests.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda