To me, that’s ENOTABUG, because that’s exactly what fail / Failure is supposed to do. Only when you actually *use* the value unprotected, will it throw.
# protected usage $ 6 'my $i = "a".Int; say $i // 42’ 42 # unprotected usage $ 6 'my $i = "a".Int; say $i' Cannot convert string to number: base-10 number must begin with valid digits or '.' in '⏏a' (indicated by ⏏) The commit fixes behaviour. > On 30 Dec 2016, at 02:59, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (via RT) > <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev > # Please include the string: [perl #130450] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130450 > > > > Code: > my $i = 'a'.Int > > > Result (2015.12, 2016.03): > Cannot convert string to number: base-10 number must begin with valid digits > or '.' in '⏏a' (indicated by ⏏) > in block <unit> at /tmp/2R0qtbz9ME line 1 > > Actually thrown at: > in block <unit> at /tmp/2R0qtbz9ME line 1 > «exit code = 1» > > > Result (HEAD): > (Failure) > > > So instead of throwing it just gives a Failure object. > > Bisectable points to > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/1cb2e8d9e71797f576b3ffc01129a196e30a9bad > > I find the current behavior a bit surprising, but feel free to argue with > that.
