Re: ROUTINE question

> On 13 Oct 2025, at 09:13, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> what am I doing wrong this time?
> 
> $ raku -e 'say &?ROUTINE.gist;'
> ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e
> Undeclared name:
>    ?ROUTINE used at line 1. Did you mean 'Routine'?
> 
> Your in confusion,

&?ROUTINE is only set *inside* a subroutine or a method.  So it can't find &?ROUTINE, and then falls back to the normal error that you get when referencing an unknown subroutine (taking the `&` off of the full name of the subroutine), e.g:

$ raku -e 'foo'
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e
Undeclared routine:
    foo used at line 1

The error message is indeed a bit confusing in the &?ROUTINE context.