[perl #66498] [BUG] Snowman, comet, regex parser, oh my!

[Carl Mäsak]

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<masak> rakudo: say "abc" ~~ m ☃.(.).☄
<p6eval> rakudo 86aeaf: OUTPUT«abc␤»
<masak> did somebody report that one?
<pmichaud> I don't know if it got rakudobugged.
<pmichaud> it did get mentioned during the design meeting
<pmichaud> I think my statement was
* masak rakudobugs
<pmichaud> "What in the world are you doing to the regex engine?!?"
<masak> :)
<masak> in a very spaced-out way, a snowman and a meteor are kinda symmetric.
<masak> but maybe not in the required way...
<pmichaud> rakudo: say "abc" ~~ m ☃.(.).☄;  say 'ok';
<p6eval> rakudo 86aeaf: OUTPUT«abc␤ok␤»
<pmichaud> rakudo:  say q☃.(.).☄;
<p6eval> rakudo 86aeaf: OUTPUT«Statement not terminated properly [...]
<pmichaud> rakudo: say "abc" ~~ m ☃.(.).☄;  say $0;
<p6eval> rakudo 86aeaf: OUTPUT«abc␤b␤»
<pmichaud> looks like it must be something in the regex parser