From cdavaz@gmail.com

Here is a small patch to make split return the empty list on
non-positive limit arguments instead of returning the string split
entirely. Moritz, I think it was you who suggested that negative
arguments be 'rejected by the signature' but I am not sure how to do
this in PIR.

From cdavaz@gmail.com

Index: src/builtins/any-str.pir
===================================================================
--- src/builtins/any-str.pir	(revision 31687)
+++ src/builtins/any-str.pir	(working copy)
@@ -411,8 +411,7 @@
 
     # per Perl 5's negative LIMIT behavior
     unless has_count goto positive_count
-    unless count < 1 goto positive_count
-    has_count = 0
+    if count < 1 goto done
 
   positive_count:
     match = regex($S0)

From @moritz

On Sun Oct 05 20​:43​:05 2008, cdavaz wrote​:

Here is a small patch to make split return the empty list on
non-positive limit arguments instead of returning the string split
entirely.

Thanks, applied as r31714.

Moritz, I think it was you who suggested that negative
arguments be 'rejected by the signature' but I am not sure how to do
this in PIR.

I don't think it's possible in PIR, so we'll wait for the time when
builtins can be written in Perl 6 (and maybe we have feedback from p6l
at that time too).

Moritz

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