From @masak

<masak> what's the idiomatic way to call a MAIN multi from another?
<japhb> masak​: nextsame?
<lizmat> masak​: samewith(...)
<tadzik> samwich()
<japhb> Oh interesting, I just directly call MAIN with the appropriate args.
* japhb wonders if that was once a backwards compat hack or something
... I've forgotten why I did it that way now.
* masak tries samewith
<masak> ooh, interesting. that fails, with "Could not find 'self'"!
<lizmat> ah, of course
<masak> of course?
<lizmat> samewith is for methods...
<masak> m​: multi MAIN() { samewith('foo') }; multi MAIN('foo') { "foo'd you!" }
<camelia> rakudo-moar 2904f3​: OUTPUT«Could not find 'self'␤ in sub MAIN [...]
<masak> how is samewith for methods?
<jnthn> I don't see why it coudln't handle subs too
<jnthn> I mean, callwith etc does
<masak> right. I was surprised about "only for methods".
<jnthn> I don't immediately see why we can't liberalize it to all routines
<masak> lizmat​: mind if I submit a rakudobug for it not working with subs?
<lizmat> I don't :-)
* masak submits rakudobug

From @lizmat

Fixed with f098e0ff6e6dd275256a91 , tests added to t/spec/S06-multi/redispatch.t

On 03 Jul 2015, at 15​:34, Carl Mäsak (via RT) <perl6-bugs-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

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<masak> what's the idiomatic way to call a MAIN multi from another?
<japhb> masak​: nextsame?
<lizmat> masak​: samewith(...)
<tadzik> samwich()
<japhb> Oh interesting, I just directly call MAIN with the appropriate args.
* japhb wonders if that was once a backwards compat hack or something
... I've forgotten why I did it that way now.
* masak tries samewith
<masak> ooh, interesting. that fails, with "Could not find 'self'"!
<lizmat> ah, of course
<masak> of course?
<lizmat> samewith is for methods...
<masak> m​: multi MAIN() { samewith('foo') }; multi MAIN('foo') { "foo'd you!" }
<camelia> rakudo-moar 2904f3​: OUTPUT«Could not find 'self'␤ in sub MAIN [...]
<masak> how is samewith for methods?
<jnthn> I don't see why it coudln't handle subs too
<jnthn> I mean, callwith etc does
<masak> right. I was surprised about "only for methods".
<jnthn> I don't immediately see why we can't liberalize it to all routines
<masak> lizmat​: mind if I submit a rakudobug for it not working with subs?
<lizmat> I don't :-)
* masak submits rakudobug

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @usev6

I'm closing this ticket as 'resolved', lizmat++

@usev6 - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'