From @masak

<masak> mberends​: I made great strides with GGE yesterday on the bus.
<mberends> \o/
<masak> the funniest things to implement are things marked TODO in PGE. :)
<masak> rakudo​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> rakudo 8dc189​: foo␤
<masak> GGE dies on the reverse range in the enum char class.
<masak> ooh!
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> :P
<masak> ng​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> ng 06c947​: foo␤
<masak> heh.

From @kyleha

This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/charset.t

commit 8cf9ce6e75dec38eaf2e2c5c5474bc1336d468d2
Author​: kyle <kyle@​c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64>
Date​: Tue Dec 29 17​:02​:28 2009 +0000

  [t/spec] Test for RT 71702​: lethal reverse range in charset
 
  git-svn-id​: http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs@&#8203;29417 c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64

diff --git a/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/charset.t b/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/charset.t
index 1aeba3f..329348c 100644
--- a/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/charset.t
+++ b/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/charset.t
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ be valid perl6.
 
 =end pod
 
-plan 25;
+plan *;
 
 if !eval('("a" ~~ /a/)') {
   skip_rest "skipped tests - rules support appears to be missing";
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ ok( "foo" ~~ /<[f] #`[comment] + [o]>/, 'comment embedded in charset works' );
 #?rakudo skip 'large \\x char spec in regex (RT #67122) (noauto)'
 ok "\x[10001]" ~~ /<[\x10000..\xEFFFF]>/, 'large \\x char spec';
 
+#?rakudo todo 'RT 71702: lethal reverse range in charset'
+eval_dies_ok( "'RT 71702' ~~ /<[d..b]>? RT/",
+    'reverse range in charset is lethal (RT 71702)' );
+
 }
 
+done_testing;
+
 # vim: ft=perl6

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @bbkr

[13​:26] <bbkr> std​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
[13​:26] <p6eval> std 31887​: OUTPUT«ok 00​:01 119m␤»

I'm not sure if reversed ranges are allowed in current spec, so I leave
it unchanged

From @jnthn

On Tue Dec 29 03​:14​:18 2009, masak wrote​:

<masak> mberends​: I made great strides with GGE yesterday on the bus.
<mberends> \o/
<masak> the funniest things to implement are things marked TODO in PGE. :)
<masak> rakudo​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> rakudo 8dc189​: foo␤
<masak> GGE dies on the reverse range in the enum char class.
<masak> ooh!
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> :P
<masak> ng​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> ng 06c947​: foo␤
<masak> heh.

Dies now​:

say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
Illegal reversed character range in regex​: d..b at line 1, near ">? foo/\n"

Tagging testneeded.

/jnthn

From @diakopter

On Fri Apr 20 06​:02​:21 2012, jnthn@​jnthn.net wrote​:

On Tue Dec 29 03​:14​:18 2009, masak wrote​:

<masak> mberends​: I made great strides with GGE yesterday on the
bus.
<mberends> \o/
<masak> the funniest things to implement are things marked TODO in
PGE. :)
<masak> rakudo​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> rakudo 8dc189​: foo␤
<masak> GGE dies on the reverse range in the enum char class.
<masak> ooh!
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> :P
<masak> ng​: say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
<p6eval> ng 06c947​: foo␤
<masak> heh.

Dies now​:

say "foo" ~~ /<[d..b]>? foo/
Illegal reversed character range in regex​: d..b at line 1, near ">?
foo/\n"

Tagging testneeded.

/jnthn

19​:27 <+dalek> roast​: 6a03ec5 | diakopter++ | S05-mass/rx.t​:
19​:27 <+dalek> roast​: test RT #​71702. resolves ticket
19​:27 <+dalek> roast​: review​:
Raku/roast@6a03ec52c3

@diakopter - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'