On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 22:03 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi Trey, > > Any chance of you sneaking in on the doc pages > for ^name and range to explain the things you > explained to me? For `.^name`—I suppose, though I’m not sure what would be appropriate there—anything beyond that native-typed variables will show the autoboxed type? I don’t think a description of autoboxing itself is relevant there. I just noticed the “Auto-boxing” section of https://docs.raku.org/language/numerics is unindexed, though, so that should probably be fixed (and it should be aliased so typing either autoboxing or auto-boxing into the search box both turn it up). For range (lower-cased), absolutely not. If my proposal for adding front-matter to routine pages is eventually adopted, that would be reasonable. But right now, when routine pages are entirely auto-generated from snippets elsewhere, that would mean adding information to https://docs.raku.org/type/X::OutOfRange#method_range — and the behavior that tripped you up has nothing even tangentially to do with the `X::OutOfRange` exception.
