[perl #111382] [BUG] Sequence "a" ... * blows up for no good reason in Rakudo

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Mon Feb 27 04:39:38 2012, masak wrote:
> <moritz> nom: sub increase-by-n($orig, $n) { ($orig, *.succ ... *)[$n]
> }; say increase-by-n('a', 18)
> <p6eval> nom 409db1: OUTPUT«s␤»
> <masak> nom: sub increase-by-n($orig, $n) { ($orig ... *)[$n] }; say
> increase-by-n('a', 18)
> <p6eval> nom 409db1: OUTPUT«Decrement out of range [...]
> <masak> decrement!?
> <masak> nom: .say for (1 ... 100)[^10]
> <p6eval> nom 409db1: OUTPUT«1␤2␤3␤4␤5␤6␤7␤8␤9␤10␤»
> <masak> nom: .say for (1 ... *)[^10]
> <p6eval> nom 409db1: OUTPUT«1␤2␤3␤4␤5␤6␤7␤8␤9␤10␤»
> <masak> nom: .say for ("a" ... *)[^10]
> <p6eval> nom 409db1: OUTPUT«Decrement out of range [...]
> <masak> I call bug.
> * moritz calls masak
> * masak submits rakudobug

Works now. Closable with tests.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda