Fixed with 57f8f8f0faa81ee9 , closable with tests
> On 30 Apr 2016, at 05:28, Alex Jakimenko (via RT)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> Code:
> say split ‘b’, ‘aba’, NaN
>
> Result:
> This type cannot unbox to a native integer
> in block <unit> at -e line 1
>
>
> OK, that error means that we cannot use Inf and -Inf too, right?
>
> Code:
> say split ‘b’, ‘aba’, +∞
> say split ‘b’, ‘aba’, -∞
>
> Result:
> (a a)
> ()
>
>
> ↑ But we can!
>
> I think that the error message is LTA because it leads the user to think that
> anything that is not unboxable to a native int is not OK, while you can
> actually use Inf and -Inf.
