The discussion I'm thinking of starts around here:
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2017-03-04#l1490

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> wrote:

> Brandon Allbery via RT wrote:
> >In any case I am specifically thinking of a discussion recently in IRC
> >which went over why at least some of this is actually self-consistent *for
> >perl 6*.
>
> I would be interested in seeing that discussion.
>
> >(That said, there may actually be some lingering inconsistency left over
> >from when Bool had to be special-cased
>
> I haven't noticed any such inconsistency between Bool and other enums.
> That's certainly not the cause of the present inconsistent coercions,
> which happen equally with Order:
>
> > Less.Int
> -1
> > Less.Real
> Less
> > Less.Numeric
> -1
>
> -zefram
>



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