Test added in Roast commit:
commit e75f03bf2d9b9b7074fd0077fb5cf4beaeef3e89
Author: Mouq <alexmoq...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Mar 4 02:03:39 2015 -0500
Add test for RT #116897
Closing as resolved :)
On Tue Jan 27 14:17:08 2015, Mouq wrote:
> Behavior change:
>
> $ perl6 -e'my @a = << >>; while (my @c = splice @a, 0, 3) { say "one
> more"; }'
> $ perl6 -v
> This is perl6 version 2015.01-32-geea99e3 built on MoarVM version
> 2015.01-5-ga29eaa9
>
> Looks good to me; marking as testneeded
>
> On Mon Feb 25 17:12:10 2013, rjbs wrote:
> > Thanks, Patrick. I used a similar workaround.
> >
> > The notion that the behavior we see in Rakudo (but not in N~) came
> > from Larry. I think the last
> > paragraph here is on point:
> >
> > http://perlcabal.org/syn/S32/Containers.html#splice
> >
> > And:
> >
> > 20:11 <TimToady> and well motivated, insofar as it makes it much
> > easier to
> > write a loop with it
> > 20:11 <rjbs> indeed
> > 20:11 <TimToady> not to mention prior art in p5
> >
> > Thanks!
