On 2009-Sep-20, at 12:48 am, Larry Wall wrote:
Yes, I think it's fair to say that either list context OR a :by turns
a Range into a RangeIterator that matches like a list. Hence, this
ought to match:
(1,3,5) ~~ (1..5 :2by)
OK; but I still have to ask why it returns a RangeIterator instead
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:29:22AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM, David Green wrote:
:
: > On 2009-Sep-19, at 5:53 am, Solomon Foster wrote:
: >
: > The one thing that worries me about this is how :by fits into it all.
: >>rakudo: given 1.5 { when 1..2 { s
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM, David Green wrote:
> On 2009-Sep-19, at 5:53 am, Solomon Foster wrote:
>
> The one thing that worries me about this is how :by fits into it all.
>>rakudo: given 1.5 { when 1..2 { say 'between one and two' }; say
>> 'not'; };
>>rakudo: given 1.5 {
On 2009-Sep-19, at 5:53 am, Solomon Foster wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote:
David (>>>),
It sounds like the split personality of Ranges strikes again. I
still think
it makes more sense to have one Series-only type and one Range-
only type,
rather than one Series ty
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> David (>), Moritz (>>), Aaron (>>>):
2,3 constructs a list. 2..3 also constructs a list, unless it's in a
given/when condition in which case it's just a range.
>>>
>>> No. 2..3 is always a range. It's just list context that turns it in
David (>), Moritz (>>), Aaron (>>>):
>>> 2,3 constructs a list. 2..3 also constructs a list, unless it's in a
>>> given/when condition in which case it's just a range.
>>
>> No. 2..3 is always a range. It's just list context that turns it into a
>> list.
>>
>>> That seems confusing.
>
> It sounds l
On 2009-Sep-18, at 8:44 am, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Aaron Sherman wrote:
2,3 constructs a list. 2..3 also constructs a list, unless it's in
a given/when condition in which case it's just a range.
No. 2..3 is always a range. It's just list context that turns it
into a list.
That seems confusing.
Aaron Sherman wrote:
> Redirecting thread to language because I do agree that this is no longer a
> matter of a bug.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Moritz Lenz via RT <
> perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu Sep 17 08:53:59 2009, ajs wrote:
>> > This code behaves as expected, ma
Redirecting thread to language because I do agree that this is no longer a
matter of a bug.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Moritz Lenz via RT <
perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> On Thu Sep 17 08:53:59 2009, ajs wrote:
> > This code behaves as expected, matching 2 or 3 in only one out of th
