This seems to work now (<[]> behaves like <!>): $ perl6 -e 'say so "a" ~~ /<[]>/' False
$ perl6 -e 'say so "abc" ~~ /a <[]>/' False $ perl6 -e 'say so "" ~~ /<[]>/' False I added two tests to S05-mass/stdrules.t with commit https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/9bad4dd1af I'm closing this ticket now.
