From @masak

r35957​:

$ perl6 -e 'grammar G { regex TOP { ^ } }; G.parse(""); say $/.WHAT;
say $/ ~~ Match'
G
0

What I usually expect in $/ is a Match object that I can query for
matched tokens. I don't know how to do that with a G object; neither
does Rakudo.

From @masak

On Sat Jan 24 08​:42​:32 2009, masak wrote​:

r35957​:

$ perl6 -e 'grammar G { regex TOP { ^ } }; G.parse(""); say $/.WHAT;
say $/ ~~ Match'
G
0

What I usually expect in $/ is a Match object that I can query for
matched tokens. I don't know how to do that with a G object; neither
does Rakudo.

Turns out this isn't .parse-specific​:

$ perl6 -e 'grammar G { regex TOP { ^ <token>* $ }; regex token { <foo>
| <bar> }; regex foo { foo }; regex bar { bar } }; "foobar" ~~
/<G​::TOP>/ or die "AOUCH"; say .WHAT for $<G​::TOP><token>'
G
G

I'd like for these to be Match objects, as well.

@masak - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @pmichaud

Now fixed in 0bbdb57​:

$ ./perl6 -e 'grammar G { regex TOP { ^ }; }; G.parse(""); say $/ ~~ Match'
1

Note that in PGE (and Rakudo), Grammar objects are subclasses of Match
objects. We do this in order to get subrule/method inheritance correct
during the match. So, if you perform G.parse(), then the result you get
back will be of type 'G' (which is now properly a subclass of Rakudo's
Match type -- previously it was a subclass of something else).

Thanks!

Pm

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