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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Sean O'Rourke" > # Please include the string: [netlabs #801] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=801 > > > > This patch makes the following behave as it does in Perl 5: > > @a = 1..3; @b = 1..3; > $x = @a + @b; # x is 6 in Perl 5, undef in Parrot > > The problem was that the math vtable methods were giving up if the other > side of the operator wasn't an int or a num. So the current version of > PerlArray would make $x undef. I'm not sure getting the other thing's > int value (as opposed to its num value) is the right thing, but it seems > like a reasonable guess. Something tells me this approach isn't quite right but I don't know what. It seems odd that, for instance, @a decides what context to take @b in. How do we say 'scalar context' in Parrot? What if @b is "Blah" in scalar context? Does it return 0 then? Anyone with more powerful Jedi skills want to bless this patch? - D <dmlloyd@tds.net>Thread Previous | Thread Next