[perl #79426] Re: rakudo: incorrect parse of :: literal in rules

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Sorry - I meant that '::' is getting parsed incorrectly.  ':' seems fine.  It must be time for bed.

On Nov 18, 2010, at  11:18 PM, Mason Kramer wrote:

> Sorry if this is not in an ideal perlbug(1) bug report, but I couldn't figure out how to do it for perl6.
> 
> My understanding is that ':' is not a metasyntactic inside of a rule definition, ie., that it is literal.  However, it's getting parsed as something else, I'm not sure what.
> 
> rakudo: rule colons { :: };
> :: not yet implemented at line 1, near " }\n"
> 
> std: rule colons { :: };
> std a194beb: OUTPUT«ok 00:01 119m␤»

• [perl #79426] Re: rakudo: incorrect parse of :: literal in rules by Mason Kramer