[perl #76294] [BUG] Can't implicitly numify Failure in Rakudo

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Wed Jun 30 07:48:56 2010, masak wrote:
> <masak> rakudo: say "abcd".index("xyz") == 0
> <p6eval> rakudo aa015a: OUTPUT�Method 'Bridge' not found for invocant
> of class 'Failure' [...]
> <masak> arnsholt: possible issue :)
> * masak submits rakudobug
> <masak> rakudo: Failure == 0
> <p6eval> rakudo aa015a: OUTPUT�Method 'Bridge' not found for invocant
> of class [...]
> * masak is not sure he likes .Bridge :/
> 
> Might be that comparing Failure (or any non-numeric type object, for
> that matter) with any number should give a warning or something, but
> it should not give this error.

It now warns:

00:43 < [Coke]> rakudo: say "abcd".index("xyz") == 0
00:43 <+p6eval> rakudo cbdd9b: OUTPUT«Use of uninitialized value in numeric 
                context␤Bool::True␤»



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Will "Coke" Coleda