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

Like many monks here, I suspect, I've become used to Perl-5 and have to an extent disbelieved in the advent of Perl-6. However, due to the poll and constant references to Rakudo in some monks posts, I am spending this weekend playing with it rather than pottering in the garden.

I got the latest from github built and installed and I'm working my way through "Using Perl 6" at the moment.

So may I extend a hearty thanks and congratulations to all involved, and request they undo the terrible damage they have caused in my household by popping over and doing the lawns ;)

Now, on to the question, The following code gives me the error stated, is there something obvious I'm not getting WRT blocks in Perl 6? 

#! /usr/local/bin/perl6
#vim: filetype=perl6
use v6;
my $var="Does this work";
for $var.split(' ') -> $word{
        if $word eq 'work'{
                say "That worked we reached the end of the string";

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        }else{
                say "Getting there...";
        }
}

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Gives the error: 
===SORRY!===
Missing block at line 8, near "else{\n\t\tsa"

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print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

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Re: Perl6, latest Rakudo bug or error on my part?
by fod (Friar) on Aug 07, 2010 at 16:00 UTC
    Hi Utilitarian I've been playing around with Rakudo a little too. I don't know the why of it but it seems that the existence (or not) of a space between a loop or conditional statement and the opening curly-brace is significant. For instance this works as intended: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl6

use v6;

my $var="Does this work";
say $var;

for $var.split(' ') -> $word {
     if $word eq 'work' {
          say "end of string";
     }else
        {say "getting there...";
    }
}

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Re: SOLVED: Perl6, latest Rakudo bug or error on my part?
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 07, 2010 at 23:15 UTC
    See Re: Perl6, modifying @*INC for an explanation why spaces before bracketing characters are important, in general.
    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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Re: Perl6, latest Rakudo bug or error on my part?
by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Aug 07, 2010 at 16:08 UTC
    Thanks fod

    I got it and came here to post when I saw your response, so space is meaningful, how very pythonesque

    print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."
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      how very pythonesque

      Py tho nisn'ttheonl yla nguageinwhichtheappropriate useofwhitespacecontribu testoparsability;t rywritingadowhilel oopinPerl5withoutaspa cesom e t i me.

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        Valid point, entertainingly made, and I am entirely sincere in my gratitude for the work you and others have put into Rakudo. It just seems strange, coming from Perl 5. that }else{ isn't parseable as I would expect.

        I spent a very educational weekend however and may even attempt, in my limited way, to contribute to the project.

        print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."
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