id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1790,r48965 changes Boolean :multi dispatch from 2.6.0 behavior,pmichaud,,"The change of Boolean in r48965 changes multidispatch w/o a deprecation notice:

{{{
pmichaud@orange:/zip/parrot$ cat bool-1.pir
.sub 'main' :main
    $P0 = new ['Boolean']
    'foo'($P0)
.end


.sub 'foo' :multi(Integer)
    say 'foo(Integer)'
.end

.sub 'foo' :multi(_)
    say 'foo(_)'
.end
   
pmichaud@orange:/zip/parrot$ RELEASE_2_6_0/parrot bool-1.pir
foo(Integer)
pmichaud@orange:/zip/parrot$ trunk/parrot bool-1.pir
foo(_)
pmichaud@orange:/zip/parrot$ trunk/parrot_config revision
48981
pmichaud@orange:/zip/parrot$ 
}}}


This causes at least one Rakudo spectest to fail where it previously succeeded (S03-operators/short-circuit.t test 20).

Pm",bug,new,normal,,core,2.7.0,medium,,,,,,