Re: [perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > If the mental model for Perl6 strings is "array of characters" though Perl has never had that mental model, is my point. It's generally imported by folks who come from languages where strings *are* "arrays of

Re: [perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

Am 08.05.2017 um 20:59 schrieb Brandon Allbery: On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT > wrote: Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages This is a Pythonism (and C and other such

Re: [perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

Yes, but I was trying to address this part: “Just recall how often the Perl-5-ism exceptions get thrown when writing normal Perl 6 code” The idea, I guess, is that the proposed error message has the same level of annoyingness as perl5-related error messages. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:59 PM,

Re: [perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages This is a Pythonism (and C and other such languages). Older Perl has the same behavior that you can't index a string that way, but must

[perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

I agree with you, but we can do better. Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages, but I believe that this case is different. I am sure that this is what most people attempt to do at some point. I also know for sure that this is what I did a couple of times when I was starting with Perl 6. I

[perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 06:05:10 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Code: > say “hello”[2] > > Result: > Index out of range. Is: 2, should be in 0..0 > in block at -e line 1 > > Actually thrown at: > in block at -e line 1 > > > > IRC discussion starting here: >

[perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 06:05:10 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Code: > say “hello”[2] > > Result: > Index out of range. Is: 2, should be in 0..0 > in block at -e line 1 > > Actually thrown at: > in block at -e line 1 > > > > IRC discussion starting here: >

[perl #129843] [LTA] Indexing on a Str throws generic “out of range” message which is less than awesome (“hello”[2])

# New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev # Please include the string: [perl #129843] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129843 > Code: say “hello”[2] Result: Index out of range. Is: 2, should be