# New Ticket Created by Daniel Green # Please include the string: [perl #127973] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127973 >
>./perl6 -e 'my $a = "a" x 2**30;say $a.chars' 1073741824 >./perl6 -e 'my str $a = "a" x 2**30;say $a.chars' ===SORRY!=== String too long for string constants segment >./perl6 -version This is Rakudo version 2016.04-17-g5a14162 built on MoarVM version 2016.04 implementing Perl 6.c. There may be some perfectly good reason, but in that case maybe the error message should reference that this is a limitation of native strings.
