From @ShimmerFairy

[10​:13​:37] <lue> rakudo​: package Foo;
[10​:13​:41] <p6eval> rakudo 749fe9​: ( no output )
[10​:13​:50] <masak> lue​: care to submit that one?
[10​:13​:59] * lue submits rakudobug

This should instead return a parsefail, according to S10. At this time,
even STD believes it to be OK.

--
Don't Panic!

From @masak

<phenny> masak​: 30 May 19​:03Z <sorear> tell masak : there is no 'package' statement in Perl
6. "package Foo;" is interpreted as meaning "use v5; package Foo;" to allow pure-Perl-5
modules to be used unaltered. STD implements this (partially)
<masak> sorear​: if by 'package statement' you mean 'braceless package declaration', then I
agree. I can see how it would be right for STD.pm6 to actually allow such a form, if it did
enough p5. Rakudo, in its present form, should probably disallow it.

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

<phenny> masak​: 30 May 19​:03Z <sorear> tell masak : there is no 'package' statement in Perl
6. "package Foo;" is interpreted as meaning "use v5; package Foo;" to allow pure-Perl-5
modules to be used unaltered. STD implements this (partially)
<masak> sorear​: if by 'package statement' you mean 'braceless package declaration', then I
agree. I can see how it would be right for STD.pm6 to actually allow such a form, if it did
enough p5. Rakudo, in its present form, should probably disallow it.

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

From @markjreed

Even with braces, I thought "package" was gone, replaced by "class"
and "module".

On Monday, May 31, 2010, Carl Mäsak via RT <bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org> wrote​:

<phenny> masak​: 30 May 19​:03Z <sorear> tell masak : there is no 'package' statement in Perl
6.  "package Foo;" is interpreted as meaning "use v5; package Foo;" to allow pure-Perl-5
modules to be used unaltered.  STD implements this (partially)
<masak> sorear​: if by 'package statement' you mean 'braceless package declaration', then I
agree. I can see how it would be right for STD.pm6 to actually allow such a form, if it did
enough p5. Rakudo, in its present form, should probably disallow it.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@​gmail.com>

From @masak

Mark (>)​:

Even with braces, I thought "package" was gone, replaced by "class"
and "module".

Then you might want to take a look at synopsis 10. It's about packages.

<http://perlcabal.org/syn/S10.html>

(But no, it's not very clear to me either what I would actually *do*
with a package that I wouldn't use a module or a class for instead.)

// Carl

From @jnthn

On Sun May 30 10​:21​:26 2010, lue wrote​:

[10​:13​:37] <lue> rakudo​: package Foo;
[10​:13​:41] <p6eval> rakudo 749fe9​: ( no output )
[10​:13​:50] <masak> lue​: care to submit that one?
[10​:13​:59] * lue submits rakudobug

This should instead return a parsefail, according to S10. At this time,
even STD believes it to be OK.

It now gives a helpful error if you do so, indicating that it appears
that the code is Perl 5, and not to use this form if you intended that
it were Perl 6. Given to moritz++ for spectesting.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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