[perl #132128] [LTA] .new of subclasses of Int returns an Int

[Brian S. Julin via RT]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:12:23 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:23:07 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote:
> > m: class Foo is Int {};  my Foo $x .= new: 42; say $x; say $x.WHAT;
> > rakudo-moar bb4579: OUTPUT: «Type check failed in assignment to $x;
> > expected Foo but got Int (42)␤  in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1␤␤»
> > 
> > This was broken by the fix to make it correctly handle >64bit ints,
> > but apparently there are even articles that show how to subclass Ints:
> > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-09-19#i_15187511
> > 
> > The likely fix would be Int.new changed to this:
> > 
> > method new (Int() \value) {
> >     nqp::p6bindattrinvres(self.bless, Int, q|$!value|,
> > nqp::getattr(nqp::decont(value), Int, q|$!value|))
> > }
> > 
> > But that currently segfaults:
> > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132126
> 
> 
> Fixed in: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/0834036dd4
> Tests in: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/ba7d5c1dd1

In that case, resolving the ticket.