It's not only in -e. I just used that for my example. A file with a unit
sub MAIN exhibits the same issue.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 17:39 Elizabeth Mattijsen via RT <
perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> Perhaps we should disallow “unit” with -e?
>
> > On 28 Mar 2016, at 20:18, Trey Ethan Harris <t...@cpan.org> wrote:
> >
> > No, see S06-routines.pod:
> >
> > As with module and class declarations, a sub declared
> > with the C<unit> declarator (and ending in semicolon) is allowed at
> the outermost
> > file scope if it is the
> > first such declaration, in which case the rest of the file is the
> body:
> >
> > unit sub MAIN ($directory, :$verbose, *%other, *@filenames);
> > for @filenames { ... }
> >
> > This form is allowed only for simple subs named C<MAIN> that are
> intended
> > to be run from the command line.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:02 AM Elizabeth Mattijsen via RT <
> perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> > unit sub ???
> >
> > I thought that unit was only supposed to be followed by a package like
> declaration??
> >
> >
> > > On 26 Mar 2016, at 02:10, Trey Harris (via RT) <
> perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > # New Ticket Created by Trey Harris
> > > # Please include the string: [perl #127785]
> > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127785 >
> > >
> > >
> > > Example:
> > >
> > > % perl6 -e 'sub MAIN ($x where { $^x > 1 } ) { say "big" }' 4
> > > big
> > > % perl6 -e 'sub MAIN ($x where { $^x > 1 } ) { say "big" }' 0
> > > Usage:
> > > -e '...' <x>
> > > % perl6 -e 'unit sub MAIN ($x where { $^x > 1 } ); say "big"' 4
> > > ===SORRY!===
> > > Expression needs parens to avoid gobbling block
> > > at -e:1
> > > ------> unit sub MAIN ($x where { $^x > 1 }⏏ ); say "big"
> > > Missing block (apparently claimed by expression)
> > > at -e:1
> > > ------> unit sub MAIN ($x where { $^x > 1 } );⏏ say "big"
> > >
> >
> >
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