Patrick wrote:

>  Somehow I read these as though the original poster was correct --
>  i.e., one creates a class method for FooClass as either
>  
>      method greet(Class $class:) { say "Hello!"; }

Yes. That will work, but it's not the recommended solution.


>  or
>  
>      method greet(FooClass $class:) { say "Hello!"; }

No. That needs to be:

       method greet(FooClass ::class:) { say "Hello!"; }

(as implied by "takes a class as its invocant" in S12).
                         ^^^^^


>  Are the design documents out of date in this regard?  If so, can
>  someone provide a patch, if not, can someone confirm that the design
>  documents are correct?  (I just happened to be looking at class methods
>  this past week, which is why I was a little surprised by Luke and 
>  Damian's answers... :-)  

Both documents are correct, but S12 is correcter (as you would expect).

Damian