I fully agree.

Note that "magical guessing" the sequence makes it quite hard to improve the ... * operator.

Suppose in perl 6.0, you have such a magical ... * operator, that "guesses" how a sequence continues. Now, for 6.1, someone comes up with an idea to "improve" the operator, allowing it to "better guess" certain classes of sequences. But how would you know such an improvement wouldn't break someone codes? The "improvement" is going to change the guess of certain start sequences (otherwise, there wouldn't be such an improvement). But someone else may be quite content with the 6.0 guess. So this isn't an operator that could easily "tune" itself over releases - unless you don't care about backwards compatability.

In reply to Re^2: Challenge: Simple algorithm for continuing series of integers by JavaFan
in thread Challenge: Simple algorithm for continuing series of integers by moritz

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