How exactly do you index such an array? On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> Indeed. The limit was introduced as a response to this ticket: > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126800 > The check is probably too aggressive, and indeed, maybe there's nothing > wrong > with 0 sized arrays. I wonder what was the justification for making the > check > inclusive. > On 2017-08-26 16:15:33, david.warring wrote: > > This is OK: > > > > % perl6 -e'my $size = 2; my @xref[$size,3] = ([1,2,3], [4,5,6]); say > @xref' > > > > [[1 2 3] [4 5 6]] > > > > But this isn't: > > > > % perl6 -e'my $size = 0; my @xref[$size,3] = (); say @xref' > > > > Illegal dimension in shape: 0. All dimensions must be integers bigger > than > > 0 > > in block <unit> at -e line 1 > > > > % perl6 -v > > This is Rakudo version 2017.08 built on MoarVM version 2017.08.1 > > implementing Perl 6.c. > > > > Just seems an unreasonable restriction that the major shape size of an > > array can't be zero. > > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
