A question.
In a project of mine I'm looking to use Perl 6 Range values to represent
continuous interval values in the most generic manner possible, meaning that the
endpoint values could literally be of any type at all.
I just wanted to confirm that that would work in the general case, where I might
want to do nothing more than:
my $a = $b .. $c;
my $a = $b ^.. $c;
my $a = $b ..^ $c;
my $a = $b ^..^ $c;
... plus invoke methods of $a to extract the values $b,$c and indicators of
whether $b or $c are included within the range or not (how you read the
distinction between the presence or absence of either or both "^".
As long as I don't try to iterate the range or something, I would expect the
above to work for any possible value of $b or $c; for a realistic example:
my $a = ['Foo', 17] ^.. ['Foo', 23];
... I would expect $a to be a Range and to be able to get those arrayrefs out of
it.
On a tangent, it would be nice if Range were parameterizable like Seq say; such
as:
has Range of Int $foo;
... and then $foo would only accept Range values whose endpoints are Int.
Now in order for what I ask to work, Range has to be lazy enough that it won't
for example test that $b is before $c when constructing the Range object, and
will only complain if necessary when you try to use it where that matters.
Bottom line, is my example line with the "['Foo',17]" valid Perl 6 or not, and
if not then what could be done about it?
Also, in what Synopsis is it documented what the methods are to extract the
endpoints et al from a Range object. Or what are they called?
Thank you in advance.
-- Darren Duncan
