This is an automatically generated page and cannot be edited directly. Text in Composite pages, (URLs starting with 'routine' or 'syntax') can be edited by clicking on the link labeled 'in context', and editing the text there.

Exit this popup by pressing <Escape>, or clicking on X or on the background.

make
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In Match§

See primary documentation in context for routine make 

method make(Match:D: Mu $payload)
sub make(Mu $payload)

Sets the .ast attribute, which will be retrieved using .made.

$/.make("your payload here");

That is, it stores an arbitrary payload into the Match object that can later be retrieved via .made method. Since the sub form operates, by default, on $/, that example is equivalent to:

make("your payload here");

This is typically used in a grammar's actions class methods, where a piece of data is stored by one method and then later retrieved by another. It's up to you what data you store. It could be a tree node, result of a calculation, a type object, or a list of values.

The sub form operates on the current Match $/, which can be a convenient shortcut:

method my-action ($/) {
    make "foo: $/";
}