[perl #123776] [BUG] Binding a variable at BEGIN time doesn't stick aruond for runtime

[Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT]

Still reproducible (2017.11, HEAD(5929887)), but is supposed to work?

On 2015-02-09 17:43:52, rayd...@cyberuniverses.com wrote:
> m: my $a; BEGIN { $a := 1; say $a; }; say $a;
> rakudo-{parrot,moar} 0cb22e: OUTPUT«1␤(Any)␤»
>
> m: my $a; BEGIN { $a = 1; say $a; }; say $a; # works with assignment
> rakudo-{parrot,moar} 0cb22e: OUTPUT«1␤1␤»