Difficulty subclassing through P6metaclass when subclass and parent have the same name.

[treed]

I've run across a bug while attempting to fix  http://github.com/cardinal/cardinal/issues#issue/34 where subclasses of parrot classes in a different HLL (and, hence, different namespaces) that happen to have the same name don't subclass correctly, but only through P6metaclass. Using the subclass opcode works fine.

[treed]

Exhibits the bug

[whiteknight]

I suspect this issue is exactly related to #1492.

[whiteknight]

Yes, looking through the P6object code, it definitely looks like this is a duplicate of #1492. That ticket shows that attempting to autovivify a class by using namespace object fails. P6object first finds the namespace and then uses that to lookup the class, which manifests the problem.

Solution is to either fix #1492 (perferred) or change P6object to avoid looking up classes from namespaces. I'll dig into #1492 a little bit today to see what I can see. I'm closing this ticket as a duplicate.