El dom., 30 sept. 2018 a las 10:15, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users (< perl6-us...@perl.org>) escribió:
> the words method is extracting items from an input string. The $limit > parameter tells the words method to extract not more than $limit items from > the string. Setting the default to Inf only tells the method to extract as > many items as it can from the input (i.e. to process the whole string), > without any limit. But since the input string cannot be infinite, the > number of items will also not be infinite. So, the Inf default for $limit > just states that there is no limit, but you'll never get an infinity of > items from a non-infinite string. > There's no Inf default now in the definition (after latest code changes), and it's been changed in the documentation accordingly. It's left in the examples, however (since that "default" is in the code too, and is tested in roast), but that can be eliminated if it leads to confusion. Cheers JJ
