[perl #77118] [BUG] :a<> should fail with a meaningful message like in STD

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This is probably related to know parsing bugs.

[17:45:26]  <cognominal> std:   say :a<>
[17:45:29]  <p6eval> std 31912: OUTPUT«Potential difficulties:␤  Pair
with <> really means a Nil value, not null string; use :a('') to
represent the null string,␤  or :a() to represent Nil more accurately
at /tmp/cgEjRhSp4V line 1:␤------> say
:a<>⏏<EOL>␤ok 00:01 112m␤»
[17:45:49]  <cognominal> rakudo: say :a<>
[17:45:54]  <p6eval> rakudo c1e19a: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤Unsupported
use of <>; in Perl 6 please use lines() or () at line 22, near "<>"␤»



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