> On 18 Sep 2017, at 19:45, Zoffix Znet (via RT) <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Zoffix Znet > # Please include the string: [perl #132121] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132121 > > > > Apparently it's possible to assign to capture variables to change what the > resultant Match will have. > > The first question: is this actually something specced and supported? > Especially the fact that further captures continue their numbering from the > capture we wrote into: > > m: say "hi hi ho" ~~ /(\w+) \s+ $10=[$0] \s+ (\w+)/ > rakudo-moar 476741: OUTPUT: «「hi hi ho」 0 => 「hi」 10 => 「hi」 11 => > 「ho」» > > > If it's not, it needs to be plugged up. And if it is, then it has this is the > bug with overflow: > > m: say "hi" ~~ / > $10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=(\w) (.)/ > rakudo-moar 476741: OUTPUT: «「hi」 -6917529027641081856 => 「h」 0 => 「i」»
Odd. One would expect something like: $ 6 'use nqp; my $l := nqp::list; nqp::bindpos($l,10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,42)' Cannot unbox 203 bit wide bigint into native integer for an error.