Hi!
Yesterday we discussed a strange behaviour of .perl on the result of a
hyperoperator. The basic bug is that
my @hyp = -« ([1, 2], 3);
say @hyp.perl;
outputs
[(-1, -2), -3]
which are strange inner parens inside the brackets that would get
flattened after eval. I committed a :todo test for this in
t/builtins/{perl,perl2}.t.
Some questions arose during the discussion:
1. Should assigning an arrayref to an array dereference? Eg., so that
@foo = [[1, 2], 3]
is basically the same as
@foo = ([1, 2], 3)
Currently the first assignment generates a list whose first element
is the complete array reference:
[[[1, 2], 3],]
which isn't maybe the expected behaviour. Or is it? Which Synopses
describes this?
2. Shouldn't .perl generally use parens for outputting arrays (at
least on the most outer level)? Because currently eval'ing the
output contains the problem from question 1.
3. Which test file is the real one:
pugs/t/builtins/perl.t
or
pugs/t/builtins/perl2.t ?
They are similar but not identical.
(Greeti+Tha)nX
Steffen
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Steffen Schwigon <http://renormalist.net>
Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>
Deutscher Perl-Workshop <http://www.perl-workshop.de/>
