Since afaict this is not specced, I'll hand that over to p6l.
Eric Hodges (via RT) wrote:
> use v6;
>
> rule test {test};
>
> "test" ~~ /<test>/;
> say '$/.keys => ', $/.keys.perl;
> say '%($/).keys => ', %($/).keys.perl;
>
> # outputs
> # $/.keys => []
> # %($/).keys => ["test"]
>
>
> Same could be said for .values and .kv
>
> It would be very DWIM for it to act like a hash in these cases by default.
Actually I think it would DWIM more in the general case if Match.keys
(and .kv, .pairs, .values etc) would give a list of the array and hash
part, so $/.keys would be @($/).keys, %($/).keys.
Your suggestion would be just a degenerate case of that.
Any thoughts on that?
Cheers,
Moritz
