From @AlexDaniel

Let's look at the code in Rakudo! From src/core/Whatever.pm

my class HyperWhatever {
    multi method new(HyperWhatever​:) { X​::Cannot​::New.new(class => self).throw }
    …
}

So it seems like it should throw a warning if we try to create a HyperWhatever object, right? Let's see!

Code​:
say HyperWhatever.new

Result​:
sub (*@​_) { #`(Sub|54745104) ... }

Apparently, the code in “.new” method of Whatever.pm is not being reached.

From @zoffixznet

On Tue Aug 09 15​:25​:11 2016, alex.jakimenko@​gmail.com wrote​:

Let's look at the code in Rakudo! From src/core/Whatever.pm

my class HyperWhatever {
multi method new(HyperWhatever​:) { X​::Cannot​::New.new(class =>
self).throw }
�
}

So it seems like it should throw a warning if we try to create a
HyperWhatever
object, right? Let's see!

Code​:
say HyperWhatever.new

Result​:
sub (*@​_) { #`(Sub|54745104) ... }

Apparently, the code in �.new� method of Whatever.pm is not being
reached.

Bizarrely, SourceBaby points to the right place, so I don't get why it doesn't work​: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/c587b9d/src/core/Whatever.pm#L10

I tried copying that little bit into a test file and rename the class to HyperWhatever2 and invoke the new and then it throws fine.

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2016-08-12#i_13009979

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

From @zoffixznet

On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15​:25​:11 -0700, alex.jakimenko@​gmail.com wrote​:

Let's look at the code in Rakudo! From src/core/Whatever.pm

my class HyperWhatever {
multi method new(HyperWhatever​:) { X​::Cannot​::New.new(class =>
self).throw }
�
}

So it seems like it should throw a warning if we try to create a
HyperWhatever
object, right? Let's see!

Code​:
say HyperWhatever.new

Result​:
sub (*@​_) { #`(Sub|54745104) ... }

Apparently, the code in �.new� method of Whatever.pm is not being
reached.

Dug a bit more into it... It's getting interpreted as an attempt to hyper-whatever a .new call (so like **.new), and the QAST gets added a call to &HYPERWHATEVER, which returns the sub you see in the output.

No idea if there's any easy way to make it DTRT, so I'm going to leave this for someone else...

From @zoffixznet

On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15​:25​:11 -0700, alex.jakimenko@​gmail.com wrote​:

Let's look at the code in Rakudo! From src/core/Whatever.pm

my class HyperWhatever {
multi method new(HyperWhatever​:) { X​::Cannot​::New.new(class =>
self).throw }
�
}

So it seems like it should throw a warning if we try to create a
HyperWhatever
object, right? Let's see!

Code​:
say HyperWhatever.new

Result​:
sub (*@​_) { #`(Sub|54745104) ... }

Apparently, the code in �.new� method of Whatever.pm is not being
reached.

Thank you for the report. This is now fixed.

Fix​: rakudo/rakudo@57a1aa7a87
Test​: Raku/roast@dbe43e171d7a

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20​:41​:53 -0700, cpan@​zoffix.com wrote​:

Bizarrely, SourceBaby points to the right place, so I don't get why it
doesn't work​:
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/c587b9d/src/core/Whatever.pm#L10

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 13​:18​:36 -0800, cpan@​zoffix.com wrote​:

No idea if there's any easy way to make it DTRT, so I'm going to leave
this for someone else...

It's OK, 2016-Zoffix. I got your back, bruh.
Took me like 3 minutes to figure out the fix.

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