On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:32 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
> On 2020-01-28 17:17, Trey Harris wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > <perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > On 2020-01-28 17:00, Trey Harris wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:58 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > > <perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org> > > <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>>> wrote: > > > > > > On 2020-01-28 16:56, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > In other words—yes, you want Raku to attempt to provoke a > > > segmentation > > > > fault, then recover and tell you whether it faulted or not. > > > > > > Huh? I just want to know what the variable actually is. I > > > do not wnat to crash anything. > > > > > > Write me a C program to do the equivalent, then, please. You will > > > segfault. If you don’t, then you’re asking a question we might > > be able > > > to answer. > > > > I can't write in C > > > > > > Perhaps that’s why you don’t understand. Assembler? COBOL? PL/I? Any > > language with pointer arithmetic? > > I used points all the time in Modula2. And reference pointers in Perl5 > > > > > I just want the correct answer back. If the wrong answer is coming > > back, why even have the function available. > > > > > > You haven’t shown one example of the “wrong answer… coming back”. > > I got back 'int' for 'unit'. Ah.... You got ‘int’—lowercase ‘int’, not uppercase ‘Int’?? I didn’t see that example and I can’t find it scrolling back. Would you repost it, please? That would change things (and possibly indicate a bug).
