[perl #72438] [BUG] Cannot call a sub named 'regex', 'token' or 'rule'

[Carl Mäsak]

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This be Rakudo a609d7 on Parrot r43600.

$ perl6 -e 'sub regex() { say "OH HAI" }; regex()'
Malformed regex definition at line 1, near "()"
[...]

$ perl6 -e 'sub token() { say "OH HAI" }; token()'
Malformed regex definition at line 1, near "()"
[...]

$ perl6 -e 'sub rule() { say "OH HAI" }; rule()'
Malformed regex definition at line 1, near "()"
[...]

Any bareword immediately followed by parentheses should be interpreted
as a subroutine call. Keywords should be no exception.