On Thu Feb 19 12:03:03 2009, ml...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: > Rakudo 00e9db: > > .say for (1, 2, 3).item > > prints three lines, although it should be just one (same as for [1, 2, > 3]), see http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2009-02-19#i_924753 and below. > > There's a test for that in t/spec/S02-builtin_data_types/array.t now.
...not so fast, there's more! :-) 20:02 <pmichaud> with .say for (1,2,3).item 20:03 <pmichaud> why would that not be 1\n2\n3\n ? 20:03 <moritz_> because it's one item over which for iterate 20:03 <TimToady> (1,2,3).item should be equiv to [1,2,3] 20:03 <moritz_> *iterates 20:03 <pmichaud> yes, but how does that differ from .say for @a ? 20:04 <TimToady> @a interpolates, [] doesn't; I guess I think of it as [] since it's anonymous 20:04 <pmichaud> I know that @a interpolations and [] doesn't, but what distinguishes the two internally? 20:04 <pmichaud> *interpolates 20:05 <TimToady> I suppose [] is really Scalar of Array 20:05 <pmichaud> right 20:05 <pmichaud> that's what Rakudo currently does 20:05 <pmichaud> so does this mean that .item also implies Scalar of ... ? 20:06 <pmichaud> i.e., so that (1,2,3).item would return a reference as opposed to just an Array ? 20:06 <TimToady> lemme think about that
