From @masak

<moritz_> rakudo​: my &foo; sub foo { };
<p6eval> rakudo 5d23e3​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Can not re-declare sub
&foo without declaring it multi at line 22, near ";"␤»
<masak> rakudo​: my &foo; multi foo { }
<p6eval> rakudo 5d23e3​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Multiple declarations of
lexical '&foo'␤␤»
<masak> but you said...? :/
<moritz_> :-)
* masak submits LTA rakudobug
<masak> std​: my &foo; sub foo { }
<p6eval> std 263c207​: OUTPUT«�[31m===�[0mSORRY!�[31m===�[0m␤Illegal
redeclaration of routine 'foo' (see line 1) [...] FAILED 00​:01 119m␤»

Note how, in not mentioning "without declaring it multi", STD.pm6
avoids leading the user down a false track in this particular case.

From @moritz

Now dies with Method 'is_dispatcher' not found for invocant of class
'Any'␤». Still LTA, but probably not too hard to fix.

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

From @jnthn

On Thu Oct 14 05​:47​:29 2010, masak wrote​:

<moritz_> rakudo​: my &foo; sub foo { };
<p6eval> rakudo 5d23e3​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Can not re-declare sub
&foo without declaring it multi at line 22, near ";"␤»
<masak> rakudo​: my &foo; multi foo { }
<p6eval> rakudo 5d23e3​: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Multiple declarations of
lexical '&foo'␤␤»
<masak> but you said...? :/
<moritz_> :-)
* masak submits LTA rakudobug
<masak> std​: my &foo; sub foo { }
<p6eval> std 263c207​: OUTPUT«�[31m===�[0mSORRY!�[31m===�[0m␤Illegal
redeclaration of routine 'foo' (see line 1) [...] FAILED 00​:01
119m␤»

Note how, in not mentioning "without declaring it multi", STD.pm6
avoids leading the user down a false track in this particular case.

Rakudo no longer does, and the error for "my &foo; multi foo() { }" is
now the correct one. Unskipped a test for this in S32-exceptions/misc.t;
resolving.

/jnthn

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