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Array.perl loses is default #6138

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p6rt opened this issue Mar 9, 2017 · 5 comments
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Array.perl loses is default #6138

p6rt opened this issue Mar 9, 2017 · 5 comments
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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#130963 (status was 'open')

Searchable as RT130963$

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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

From zefram@fysh.org

my @​a is default(Nil); @​a[0] = Nil
Nil
@​a[0]
Nil
@​a.perl.EVAL[0]
(Any)

.perl.EVAL fails to round-trip the Nil element value in the Array.
Nil itself round-trips fine, so the failure here is specific to the Array.

-zefram

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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

From @zoffixznet

On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 04​:06​:27 -0800, zefram@​fysh.org wrote​:

my @​a is default(Nil); @​a[0] = Nil
Nil
@​a[0]
Nil
@​a.perl.EVAL[0]
(Any)

.perl.EVAL fails to round-trip the Nil element value in the Array.
Nil itself round-trips fine, so the failure here is specific to the Array.

-zefram

Looks to me it's not Nil it's losing, it's the `is default` that it's losing​:

  $ perl6 -e 'my @​a is default(42); say @​a[^3]; @​a.perl.EVAL[^3].say'
  (42 42 42)
  ((Any) (Any) (Any))

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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

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

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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

From @zoffixznet

And without `is default(Nil)` a Nil value would assume whatever the `is default` is (which by default is Any)

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p6rt commented Mar 9, 2017

From zefram@fysh.org

Zoffix Znet via RT wrote​:

Looks to me it's not Nil it's losing, it's the `is default` that it's losing​:

That's a reasonable way to look at it. Note that a binding also loses
its bindiness​:

my @​a; @​a[0] := Nil
Nil
@​a[0]
Nil
@​a.perl.EVAL[0]
(Any)
@​a.perl.EVAL[0] = 3
3
@​a[0] = 3
Cannot modify an immutable Nil
  in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1

-zefram

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