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.&foo form differs from foo($_) when routine throws control exceptions #6321

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p6rt opened this issue Jun 3, 2017 · 1 comment
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p6rt commented Jun 3, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#131504 (status was 'new')

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p6rt commented Jun 3, 2017

From @zoffixznet

I assumed the .&foo form was just a nicer way of writing foo($_), however they differ in that
the thrown control exception doesn't go far enough in .&foo form and it doesn't actually
return from the routine with things like .&fail and .&return

  <Zoffix__> m​: sub { 'foo'.&fail; 42 }().^name.say
  <camelia> rakudo-moar 64e898​: OUTPUT​: «foo␤ in sub at <tmp> line 1␤ in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1␤␤Actually thrown at​:␤ in sub at <tmp> line 1␤ in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1␤␤»
  <Zoffix__> m​: sub { fail 'foo'; 42 }().^name.say
  <camelia> rakudo-moar 64e898​: OUTPUT​: «Failure␤»

  <Zoffix__> m​: sub { return 'foo'; 42 }().^name.say
  <camelia> rakudo-moar 64e898​: OUTPUT​: «Str␤»
  <Zoffix__> m​: sub { 'foo'.&return; 42 }().^name.say
  <camelia> rakudo-moar 64e898​: OUTPUT​: «Int␤»

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