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X::Placeholder::Block Reference

Compilation error due to a placeholder in an ineligible block

What it is #

Position in the hierarchy #

Inherits from
Does
Inherited byX::Placeholder::Mainline

Routines #

Signatures are reproduced from the documentation, including their declared return types. A routine listed here is part of the type's published interface; whether Raku++ implements it is a separate question, answered by the examples below.

method placeholder #

Returns the name of the (first) illegally used placeholder.

Examples, run three ways #

Every example below comes from the official documentation, together with the output that documentation asserts. Each was then executed by Rakudo and by Raku++ when this page was built. Where the three agree, one result is shown; where they do not, all three are — because which of them is wrong is exactly the information worth having.

3 no-output

class X::Placeholder::Block does X::Comp {}

Not executed: the documentation states no expected output for this example.

class A { $^foo }

Not executed: the documentation states no expected output for this example.

Placeholder variable $^foo may not be used here because the surrounding block takes no signature

Not executed: the documentation states no expected output for this example.