Monday, October 19, 2009

rtype not set

I just got this diagnostic from NQP, and boy, is that not a helpful error message. Of course, since it's in PAST->POST compilation, there's no line number or token output.

FWIW, the problem was that I was doing this:
self.declarator := '' ~ $name;
when, as anyone can plainly see, I should have been doing this:
self.declarator('' ~ $name);
because .declarator is a method, not an attribute. D'oh.

I've seen this error once before, and I didn't remember what caused it. I hope that next time I'll remember it, or that The All-Knowing Oz will be able to remind me.

1 comment:

  1. I hear you buddy. I, too, have gone through what you have been going through. But I never found a solution to this problem. If you do, do tell me.

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