in reply to Perl6, modifying @*INC

BEGIN{ push @*INC, 'C:\Rakudo\lib';}

Add a space before the opening curly: BEGIN { @*INC.push( 'C:\Rakudo\lib' );}

The reason is that {...} directly after a statement is parsed as a postcircumfix, which is very handy if you want to access hash elements like %hash{$key} (but which is intentionally not special-cased to hashes).

The error message could be improved, though.

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Re^2: Perl6, modifying @*INC
by molecules (Monk) on Aug 05, 2010 at 16:17 UTC
    Thanks!

    I also noticed that the indirect method syntax for push doesn't work inside the BEGIN block. I wasn't sure if that was a feature or something still to be done.
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      It's a well-known bug. Unfortunately we have some roadmap items to complete before we can fix that - we need to have static lexical pads at compile time to make built-in functions available in BEGIN blocks.
      Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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        Thanks.

        I was just curious. I can't complain because I haven't helped develop Rakudo. :)

        Thanks for all of your work on Rakudo.
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