chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:20:15 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> In particular, I think that the following sequence should >> result in a 0-length array: >> >> my @array; >> @array[8] = 'eight'; # array has elements 0..8 >> @array.delete(8); # now it's empty again >> say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # "0\n" >> >> Pugs (evalbot) disagrees with me on this: >> >> 06:16 <pmichaud> pugs: my @array; @array[8]='eight'; @array.delete(8); >> say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 06:16 <exp_evalbot> OUTPUT[8] >> >> Perl 5 agrees with my interpretation, though: >> >> $ cat x >> my @array; >> $array[8] = 'eight'; >> delete $array[8]; >> print [EMAIL PROTECTED], "\n"; >> $ perl x >> 0 >> $ >> >> Comments? > > S29 suggests that this should be the case: > > Deleted elements at the end of an Array shorten the length of the Array, > unless doing so would violate an is shape() definition.
I added that as a test (+smartlink). I also fixed the other four offending tests. Rakudo now passes all of t/S29-array/delete.t Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
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