On Mon Jun 08 12:02:55 2015, pmichaud wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:08:33AM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > > I agree that this should be throwing the same conversion error. > > I disagree to the extent that making min() throw the conversion error seems > to go against the purpose of designing soft/lazy Failure types into Perl 6 > in the first place. > > Sometimes we speak about not having the entire rocket explode simply > because of a few errors in the input set. In this case, min() is designed > to silently ignore undefined values in its calculations. Since in this > example all of the input values were undefined, min returned its 0-arg > case of Inf. > > Perhaps an argument could be made that if min() is invoked on a list > consisting only of undefined values, it should return the first (undefined) > value instead of Inf. In other words, undefined values end up in this > middle-region between "lowest defined value" and "Inf", or something like > that. > > At any rate, at this moment it's more of a specification issue than an > actual rakudobug. > > Pm
Even if this was a Failure under the covers, in his example, he's say-ing the value, which should trigger the error at the point. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
