On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> What is assigning a Range to an array supposed to do? Give you an
> array of one item which is a Range? Convert to a series?
A range in list context becomes a list of successive values in
the Range.
my @foo = 1..*;
causes @foo to be initialized (lazily, as requested) to 1, 2, 3, and
on up to infinity. @foo.max then tries to find the maximum value
of @foo, which takes a very long time as the .max method goes through
the infinite set of elements of @foo looking for the largest one to
return.
It's possible that C<.max> should detect that its invocant has
an infinite number of elements and return a failure of some sort,
but I'd want a consensus opinion on it before doing it.
Pm
> On Friday, July 30, 2010, Will Coleda <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> > # New Ticket Created by Will Coleda
> > # Please include the string: [perl #76842]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76842 >
> >
> >
> > twitterbugged @ http://twitter.com/mfollett/status/19919694472 :
> >
> > - Interesting Rakudo edge case: > (1..*).max Inf But: > my @foo = 1..*
> >> @foo.max doesn't finish, yet
> >
> > --
> > Will "Coke" Coleda
> >
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
