The test in S14-roles/basic.t passes now on JVM. Also the code from lizmat++ does not die:
$ perl6 -e 'role R { method !m(@a) { say "ok: @a[]" }; method x() { self!m((my %).values) } }; class C does R { }; C.x' ok: I haven't yet looked at src/core/IO/Local.pm or src/core/Temporal.pm