id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1640,Method names that start with '@' are not recognized.,shockwave,,"Unless class methods cannot start with '@' (or just be named '@'), there is a bug in Parrot regarding that.

Regular subroutines (not methods) *can* be named '@'.

If this is the expected behavior (hopefully not), it should be marked as such in the docs.

# The following fails. Change to '*', and it succeeds.

.namespace ['Test'] 

.sub '%' :method 
	say 'help'
.end

.sub 'main' :main
	$P0 = newclass 'Test'
	$P1 = new 'Test'
	$P1.'%'()
.end

# Error message: Method '@' not found for invocant of class 'Test'

My personal usecase of that is: In my language (as in C++), operators can be overloaded, included @. Such operator would create a method named '@', or a mangled version name something like '@m13_1', in PIR.",bug,closed,major,,imcc,2.3.0,high,fixed,,,,,