On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Larry Wall<la...@wall.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:21:12PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: > : 2.5 ~~ 1..5 # true: equivalent to "2.5 ~~ 1 <= $_ <= 5". > > Current specced behavior for Range objects. > > : 2.5 ~~ @(1..5) # false: equivalent to "2.5 ~~ (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)". > > Not by current rules; which say the left side matches the list 1..5 > as a whole. We don't do implicit junctifying of lists anymore, and haven't > for several years. Which points to the correct Perl 6 utterance for that: > > 2.5 ~~ any(1..5) # false > > Wherein, as you suggest, the 1..5 in list context does in fact iterate the > range to produce individual values.
You're right, of course. I keep getting tripped up on those details... -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
