[perl #125815] :nth(-666) is intended to die, but it does not

2015-11-18 Thread Christian Bartolomaeus via RT
This seems to work now: $ perl6 -e 'say "foo foo foo".subst(/foo/, "bar", :nth(-Inf));' Attempt to retrieve before :1st match -- :nth(-Inf) in block at -e:1 skids++ added tests with commit e502eaf9. For some reason a few of those tests still fail (do not die) on rakudo.jvm. I'll flag this ti

[perl #125815] :nth(-666) is intended to die, but it does not

2015-08-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko # Please include the string: [perl #125815] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125815 > You can put any negative number (even -Inf) and it will not die: m: say 'foo foo foo'