On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:00:43PM -0700, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > So far I think the original RFC to make .. a numeric operator is out. > There's still an issue with .. not using .succ on strings. Does anyone > know why that is the case? The templating example I presented is still > valid with the pure .succ behaviour.
As a historical datapoint, there *was* a time when .. explicitly used .succ on strings and other non-numeric types. I know it was implemented that way in Rakudo -- I don't know why/when that behavior changed. See, for example, S03:3550 (and there are other examples sprinkled throughout S03). Pm
