The Match object returned by calling a regex directly does not have a .perl method

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#68346 (status was 'rejected')

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From @masak

<masak> rakudo​: regex foo { foo }; say foo('foo').perl
<p6eval> rakudo 5667dc​: OUTPUT«Method 'perl' not found for invocant of
class 'PGE;Match'␤»
* masak submits rakudobug

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From @pmichaud

On Sun Aug 09 06​:27​:17 2009, masak wrote​:

<masak> rakudo​: regex foo { foo }; say foo('foo').perl
<p6eval> rakudo 5667dc​: OUTPUT«Method 'perl' not found for invocant of
class 'PGE;Match'␤»
* masak submits rakudobug

Latest discussion is that calling regexes directly will not return Match
objects. See http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2009-09-25#i_1539591 .

Beyond that, it's not clear that one can pass a simple string to a
Regex; it may require creating a Cursor first (since regexes are really
methods requiring a Cursor invocant).

Pm

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

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From @moritz

The code now say Method '!cursor_start' not found for invocant of class
'Str' because it treats the argument to the regex as a Cursor. Which
seems to be OK. Closing without tests, because the spec isn't very
explicit here.

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