> On 28 Oct 2014, at 21:23, Carl Mäsak (via RT) <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" > # Please include the string: [perl #123077] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123077 > > > > <moritz> m: my $x = 1/ 0; $x.gist > <camelia> rakudo-moar 315ec6: OUTPUT«Type check failed for return > value; expected 'Int' but got 'Failure' [...] > <moritz> that looks like a bug to me > <masak> moritz: agreed. > <masak> moritz: do you want to rakudobug it, or shall I? > <moritz> masak: please do > * masak does, pleased > <masak> moritz: ooc and for the record, did you expect `my $x = 1/ 0` > to fail? if so, how? or, if you expected it to succeed, what value did > you expect in $x ? > <moritz> masak: I didn't know if it would fail or die > <moritz> masak: but I expected that if it was a Failure, .gist would > throw a "division by zero" exception > <arnsholt> I guess I'd expect $x to either be a Failure or a NaN > <moritz> arnsholt: since there are no Nums involved, I'd find a NaN rather > weird > <masak> Java has integer 1/0 as a (runtime) error, but float/double > 1.0/0.0 as a NaN. > <masak> m: say Rat.new(1, 0).perl > <camelia> rakudo-moar 315ec6: OUTPUT«<1/0>» > <masak> S03 seems to indicate that that's the intended answer. > <masak> at least reading it by the letter, and seeing no exception in > place for integral division by 0. > <masak> ...except if this implicitly mean that Perl 6 is like Perl 5 > in this regard, in which case it should die with "Illegal division by > zero" at runtime. > <moritz> I'm even fine with an <1/0> literal, as long as it .gist()s sensibly > * masak .oO( rakudo-moar 315ec6: OUTPUT«<1/0>, you knucklehead!» )
After 9672c0df736cde4602036e4f6e137b6c4bc7209d : $ 6 'my $x = 1/ 0; $x.gist' Divide by zero Liz
