Semicolon-separated subscripting gives weird results instead of Whatever-currying

[2colours]

The Problem

Subscripts work for basic Whatever-currying - not with semilists, however. Since Whatever can be Positional-indexed but not Associative-indexed, two different but equally undesirable outcomes can be witnessed.

Expected Behavior

*[0;5] #WhateverCode.new *{'fej';'arc'} #WhateverCode.new

Actual Behavior

*[0;5] #Index out of range. Is: 5, should be in 0..0 - yes, *[0;0] succeeds and gives * *{'fej';'arc'} #Type Whatever does not support associative indexing.

Environment

• Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04
• Compiler version (perl6 -v or raku -v): Welcome to Rakudo™ v2022.04. Implementing the Raku® Programming Language v6.d. Built on MoarVM version 2022.04.

[2colours]

The behavior is probably driven by syntax. Maybe it should be addressed in the RakuAST branch?

[lizmat]

I seem to recall @TimToady saying something about Whatever currying stopping when encountering a semi-colon. So maybe this behaviour is intentional.