On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:47:38 -0800, comdog wrote: > Adapted from the Stackoverflow answer at: > http://stackoverflow.com/a/40824226/2766176 > > I'm using moar (2016.10) on macosx (10.10.5) darwin (14.5.0) (These > variables are quite nice!) > > This came out of a problem I had with set membership. It turns out > that the way you make the set matters, and the way you make the > candidate member matters. In my case, there's a bug with angle-bracket > word quoting. > > I used the [angle-brackets form of the quote > words](https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting#Word_quoting:_qw). The > quote words form is supposed to be equivalent to the quoting version > (that is, True under `eqv`). Here's the doc example: > > <a b c> eqv ('a', 'b', 'c') > > But, when I try this with a word that is all digits, this is not equivalent: > > $ perl6 > > < a b 137 > eqv ( 'a', 'b', '137' ) > False > > But, the other forms of word quoting are! > > > qw/ a b 137 / eqv ( 'a', 'b', '137' ) > True > > Q:w/ a b 137 / eqv ( 'a', 'b', '137' ) > True > > The angle-bracket word quoting uses > [IntStr](https://docs.perl6.org/type/IntStr): > > > my @n = < a b 137 > > [a b 137] > > @n.perl > ["a", "b", IntStr.new(137, "137")] > > Without the word quoting, the digits word comes out as [Str]: > > > ( 'a', 'b', '137' ).perl > ("a", "b", "137") > > ( 'a', 'b', '137' )[*-1].perl > "137" > > ( 'a', 'b', '137' )[*-1].WHAT > (Str) > > my @n = ( 'a', 'b', '137' ); > [a b 137] > > @n[*-1].WHAT > (Str)
Thanks for the reqport, however, what you describe is not a bug, as the angle brackets have special feature to construct IntStr, NumStr, RatStr, and ComplexStr allomorphs as well as specify Rat and Complex literals. The documention was just misleading. I corrected it in: https://github.com/perl6/doc/commit/fa0b8f643356a3db1e5e59fda4f153f48f90ee90
