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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:13:21 -0700
"Patrick R. Michaud via RT" <perl6-bugs-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> For a wide variety of reasons, Rakudo currently implements Bool as a
> fundamental type rather than an enumeration. As such, Bool.pick is
> acting the same as if one had written "Int.pick" or "Num.pick" -- it's
> treating the invocant as a list of one element and then returning the
> type object directly. And Bool as a type object always returns false
> because it is undefined.
Q: Why would the object type be false?
I would have thought that
Bool.pick and print for ^100
turning into
'Bool' and print for ^100;
would print all of the values, rather than printing
none of them (admittedly given only one day of Damian's
P6 class this assumption may be waaaay off).
> For now, the workaround is to do (False,True).pick until we can properly
> implement .pick on enumerations, and figure out how to turn Bool into
> one (or convince the specification that Bool is not really an
> enumeration :-).
Actually ^2.pick works nicely also, just seemed
odd that Bool.pick didn't.
thanx
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