# New Ticket Created by Joshua Hoblitt # Please include the string: [perl #37148] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37148 > The error message returned from imcc when trying to 'new' a non-existent PMC is misleading. -- $ cat foo.pasm new P0, .Bigint $ parrot foo.pasm error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected DOT in file 'foo.pasm' line 1 -- <chip> shirley it's just another production: '.' error { error("that was supposed to be a type name there") } or some such