pyanfar Z$ 6 'use MONKEY-TYPING; augment class Any {method hic { say "hoc"
}}; my @a = <a b c d>; @a.hic'
No such method 'hic' for invocant of type 'Array'. Did you mean 'hic'?
in block <unit> at -e line 1
zsh: exit 1
pyanfar Z$ 6 'use MONKEY-TYPING; augment class Any {method hic { say "hoc"
}}; Array.^compose; my @a = <a b c d>; @a.hic'
hoc
Basically you have to re-compose any class you want to see the added
methods.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:53 PM Joseph Brenner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got another question about aug--yes, I know--ment.
>
> I've got a module ides_of_augment.pm6:
>
> use MONKEY-TYPING;
> augment class Any {
> method hiccup {
> say "hic!";
> }
> }
>
> I would've thought it could be used in the repl like this:
>
> perl6 -Mides_of_augment
>
> > (Any).hiccup
> hic!
> > my @a=< a b c d >;
> [a b c d]
> > @a.hiccup
> No such method 'hiccup' for invocant of type 'Array'. Did you mean
> 'hiccup'?
> in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1
>
> As you can see, it kind-of augments the Any class, but evidently
> does it too late to (completely) change an instance of Array.
>
> I tried a few things like "BEGIN augment" or "INIT augment"
> without any luck.
>
> Any suggestions (besides "don't do it")?
>
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