On 03/23/2012 05:30 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:03:09PM +1300, Martin D Kealey wrote: >> Question: do we support >> >> 1, 2i, -4 ... 256 > > I think this ought to work, but for some reason Rakudo on my system > hangs whenever I try it.
The problem was that infix:<!=> hung with Complex numbers, because it was defined for each numeric type, but the Complex candidate was missing. Thus the most general candidate called .Numeric on its arguments, re-dispatched, and looped infinitely. Fixed in 2012.03-3-g4a247b1, and tested in S32-num/complex.t. This also fixes the sequence 1, 2i, -4 ... 256. Cheers, Moritz
