From @Juerd

It would be more awesome if "Unexected named argument 'foo' passed" was
supplemented with the name of the function to which it was passed.

  sub xyzzy ($x, :$foo = False) { ... }
  sub bar ($y) { ... }

  xyzzy(
  bar "aoeusnthaoeusnth",
  :foo
  )

If the error message includes the name 'bar', it's obvious that adding
parentheses will fix the problem.
--
Met vriendelijke groet, // Kind regards, // Korajn salutojn,

Juerd Waalboer <juerd@​tnx.nl>
TNX

From @zoffixznet

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07​:15​:54 -0700, juerd@​tnx.nl wrote​:

It would be more awesome if "Unexected named argument 'foo' passed" was
supplemented with the name of the function to which it was passed.

sub xyzzy \($x, :$foo = False\) \{ \.\.\. \}
sub bar \($y\) \{ \.\.\. \}

xyzzy\(
    bar "aoeusnthaoeusnth",
    :foo
\)

If the error message includes the name 'bar', it's obvious that adding
parentheses will fix the problem.

But the error for that code does already say `in sub bar`​:

  m​: sub bar {}; bar :42foo
  rakudo-moar 2fb8c7​: OUTPUT​: «Unexpected named argument 'foo' passed␤ in sub bar at <tmp> line 1␤

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

From @lizmat

On 24 Jul 2017, at 19​:51, Zoffix Znet via RT <perl6-bugs-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07​:15​:54 -0700, juerd@​tnx.nl wrote​:

It would be more awesome if "Unexected named argument 'foo' passed" was
supplemented with the name of the function to which it was passed.

sub xyzzy ($x, :$foo = False) { ... }
sub bar ($y) { ... }

xyzzy(
bar "aoeusnthaoeusnth",
:foo
)

If the error message includes the name 'bar', it's obvious that adding
parentheses will fix the problem.

But the error for that code does already say `in sub bar`​:

m​: sub bar {}; bar :42foo
rakudo-moar 2fb8c7​: OUTPUT​: «Unexpected named argument 'foo' passed␤ in sub bar at <tmp> line 1␤

Well, technically, that’s part of the backtrace, not of the message?

From @Juerd

Zoffix Znet via RT skribis 2017-07-24 10​:51 (-0700)​:

But the error for that code does already say `in sub bar`​:
m​: sub bar {}; bar :42foo
rakudo-moar 2fb8c7​: OUTPUT​: «Unexpected named argument 'foo' passed␤ in sub bar at <tmp> line 1␤

I was catching exceptions and printing them without gist. Sorry!
--
Met vriendelijke groet, // Kind regards, // Korajn salutojn,

Juerd Waalboer <juerd@​tnx.nl>
TNX