[perl #128758] Reduce with numeric ops does not numify things if only one arg is passed ([*] set(1,2,3))

[email protected] ("Jan-Olof Hendig via RT") Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:20:57 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.compiler
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:43:30 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:50:43 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > It looks like this bug hasn't been *completely* fixed:
> >
> > dd &infix:<+>( "2" );       # 2
> > dd &infix:<*>( "2" );       # 2
> >
> > dd [*] "2";                 # 2
> > dd [+] "2";                 # 2
> >
> > dd reduce &infix:<*>, "2";  # 2
> > dd reduce &infix:<+>, "2";  # "2"
> >
> > i.e. it doesn't work when using the + operator with the functional
> > form of reduce, even though it works with other numeric operators and
> > with the meta-operator form.
> 
> Last example fixed with commit (2018-01-13)
> https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/0af3f4d1c37dddb8c6362c2eafb74d849c5d9ded

Test added with commit https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/6b0fcc2b91909361e7f0fd07df4d9f6002aa889d