The first evaluation fails again (no method 'subst-mutate' nowadays), so I'm re-opening this ticket.
$ perl6 -e 's[ea] = "rea";' Method 'subst-mutate' not found for invocant of class 'Any' in block <unit> at -e:1 We're back to "We could improve the error, but what should it say" (moritz, 2012) and "Maybe it should mention $_ somewhere, since it tries to call subst on $_" (FROGGS, 2013).