Mark J. Reed wrote: > I didn't see anything in the issue tracker, nor did any tests fail,
There are failing (but TODOed) tests somewhere below t/spec/S02-builtin_data_types/ > but am I correct in assuming that array slicing is simply not > implemented yet in Rakudo? Correct. > $ ./perl6 -e 'my @a = (1,2,3); say @a[0 .. 1];' > 3 > > it takes the range in item context, which is the size of the range, > and uses that as an index. The PIR is pretty straightforward: > > $I22 = "infix:.."($P20, $P21) > ... > set $P24, $P23[$I22] > > Is that supposed to work? Is the PIR subscript operation supposed to > be smart enough to do the right thing with a subscript that happens to > be a Range? Or does that onus fall on the Perl6 compiler to generate > PIR that handles it more manually? I don't know that, but I know that Perl 6 needs some extra smartness for the subscript operation anyway, because it supports funky stuff with the Whatever star (@array[*-2] etc). Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http://perl-6.de/ | http://sudokugarden.de/
