So, I've spent an hour or two every night this week reading through the perl6 intro, and several of the various official perl6 docs, but I've run into an issue. I don't know if this is my problem, or a problem with the docs.

From the open() documentation, there is the following code example (spurt() simply prints something to the file):

my $fh = open("test", :w);
spurt $fh, "stuff\n";

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But when I test it (code is verbatim, the line num in the error is the spurt() line):

my $wfh = open("in.txt", :w);
spurt $wfh, "a\n";
$wfh.close;

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... it results in:

Type check failed in binding $path; expected Cool but got IO::Handle (
+IO::Handle.new(:path(...)
  in block <unit> at nl.pl6 line 2

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Can someone explain where I'm going wrong? If it's relevant, I just installed the most recent p6 bits yesterday afternoon.

In reply to Perl6: unexpected exception when printing to a writable file handle by stevieb

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