Sorry, that first sentence was imprecise: `a` is a named arg, as compared to the pair `(e=>2)`, which is a positional arg by virtue of the parens.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:01 PM Philip Hazelden <philip.hazel...@gmail.com> wrote: > You're passing `a` as a named arg, and `e` as a positional arg. .list only > returns the positional args, and .elems only counts those. You can use > .hash to get the named args. Alternatively, if you replace `a=>1` with > `(a=>1)` or `'a'=>1`, it should show up in the .list and .elems counts. > > See: http://doc.perl6.org/type/Capture > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:56 PM mt1957 <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> L.s. >> >> I've seen that the order of input to a Capture is not kept. Is this a bug? >> >> REPL interaction; >> >> > my Capture $c = \(a=>1,10,{w=>2},[2,3],(e=>2),(b=>3,),Buf.new(^3)) >> \(10, {:w(2)}, [2, 3], :e(2), (:b(3),), Buf.new(0, 1, 2), :a(1)) >> >> > for $c.list -> $item { $item.WHAT.say;} >> (Int) >> (Hash) >> (Array) >> (Pair) >> (List) >> (Buf) >> >> Last item is missing, a pair :a(1). $c.elems reports 6 elements. I'm not >> sure but there was a bug report about it I believe. >> >> Greetings >> Marcel Timmerman >> >
