On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:02:36 -0700, "Carl Mäsak via RT" <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> I see two things in this ticket. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > > $ p6 -e'Num.Range.say' > > No such method 'Range' for invocant of type 'Num' > > in block <unit> at -e:1 > > First thing: Num doesn't have a Range coercer. > > > $ p6 -e'my Int $i = Int.Range.max; $i.say' > > Type check failed in assignment to '$i'; expected 'Int' but got 'Num' > > in block <unit> at -e:1 > > Second thing: can't put Inf in Int, In which case Int.Range.max should not return Inf IMHO. Maybe it should return int8.Range.max instead. If you cannot put Int.Range.max in Int, that is extremely counter-inutitive > which is a dupe of https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61602, > which is currently blocking on https://github.com/perl6/specs/issues/27 > but the last word on which is > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2014-08-20#i_9217322, IMO. That, at the moment, is beyond my current level of understanding the core :) > So, mind if I change the name of this ticket to "Num doesn't have > a Range coercer"? :) Is ok. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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