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<masak> rakudo: Inf.S
<p6eval> rakudo c0b2e3: OUTPUT«Method 'S' not found for invocant of
class 'Num' [...]
<masak> rakudo: class A { has Int $.S = 0 }; say (A.new, A.new, A.new).min(*.S)
<p6eval> rakudo c0b2e3: OUTPUT«Method 'S' not found for invocant of
class 'Num' [...]
<masak> I think the former is what's happening in the latter.
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> Inf is nice and all, but I think the above shows that the
value Inf is not enough in the .min method (because we don't want to
call Inf.S) -- rather, we need to special-case the initial value of
the accumulator variable somehow.
<masak> TimToady: this would be a case of using an in-band value and
wishing it were out-of-band, I guess :)
<masak> put differently, you can't both have Inf in that algorithm,
and arbitrary closures that invoke on the smallest-value-found-so-far.
