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Why doesn't Perl 6 pairs and name interpolation work?

I played with Interpolation in names . I was more interested in this colon syntax function to turn a variable into a pair where the identifier is the key.

my %Hamadryas = map { slip $_, 0 }, < februa honorina velutina >; { my $pair = :%Hamadryas; say $pair; # Hamadryas => { ... } } put '-' x 50;

But, just for a giggle, I also wanted to try with variable name interpolation. I know this is stupid, because if I know the name, I don't need the colon syntax to get it. But I also thought that it should work by chance:

 { my $name = 'Hamadryas'; # Since I already have the name, I could just: # my $pair = $name => %::($name) # But, couldn't I just line up the syntax? my $pair = :%::($name); # does not work say $pair; }

Why is the syntax :%::($name) not working? It is a question of when the parser decides that it does not parse what it wants to understand. I decided that he would see : and begin processing the colon pair, and then see % and find out that it has a hash, although there :: after % .

Is there a way to make it work with grammar tricks and mutations?

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