[perl #117975] [BUG] can not pop state anonymous array with repetition operator

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This is perl6 version 2013.04-57-gb1695cf built on parrot 5.2.0
revision RELEASE_5_2_0

my @a = ^3;
say (state@ = @a).pop xx 2;
say @a;

Returns:
OUTPUT«Element popped from empty list␤  in method Str at 
                 src/gen/CORE.setting:10021␤  in method Str at 
src/gen/CORE.setting:876␤  in method Stringy at 
                 src/gen/CORE.setting:885␤  in method join at 
src/gen/CORE.setting:1375␤  in method Str at 
                 src/gen/CORE.setting:5969␤  in …

Expected:
2 1
0 1 2