[perl #60820] Infinite pretzel recursion in Rakudo when filling a variable with an array in which one of the elements is the old value of that variable

[Patrick R. Michaud via RT]

On Tue Nov 25 18:21:04 2008, pmichaud wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:36:45PM -0800, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> > <masak> rakudo: my $a = 5; $a = [ $a, 6 ]; say $a
> > <p6eval> rakudo 33193: OUTPUT[maximum recursion depth 
> 
> Rakudo doesn't quite know how to interpolate values into lists yet,
> or how to convert a list into an array.  When that's fixed, the
> above should work also.

It's now fixed, and the above works:

    > my $a = 5;  $a = [ $a , 6 ];  say $a.perl;
    [5, 6]


Thanks!

Pm