Burak has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been playing with rakudo recenly and did a little investigation about module definitions. The only module repository is the pugs repo AFAIK. I've cloned it to see some code. However class/module definitions with versions does not seem to work. Does Rakudo not support ( no such mention in http://rakudo.org/status ) that syntax yet or the syntax changed perhaps (since pugs is no longer alive)? 
C:\>perl6 -e "module Foo;"

C:\>perl6 -e "module Foo-1.0;"
Unable to parse module definition at line 1, near "-1.0;"
in Main (file src\gen_setting.pm, line 1559)

C:\>perl6 -e "class Foo;"

C:\>perl6 -e "class Foo-1.0;"
Unable to parse class definition at line 1, near "-1.0;"
in Main (file src\gen_setting.pm, line 1559)

C:\>

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note: I have rakudo#23

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Re: Module/Class definition in Rakudo
by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 06, 2009 at 22:27 UTC

    The syntax you use is wrong (see S11 for example), the right thing would be 

    module Foo:ver<1.0>;

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    Rakudo (latest version from github) seems to accept this syntax, but to the best of my knowledge ignores it.

    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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      Thanks! #23 seems to parse that as well since I get no errors :) So, the sample modules in the pugs repo are not quite good examples I presume?
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        Many of those are very outdated. You'll have better chances in the perl6-examples repository on github.
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