[perl #126596] [LTA] confusing error with single '{' in double quoted string:

[Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT]

Oh. That's actually related to this ticket:
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132168

I'll merge it because both tickets are asking for the same problem to be
resolved.

On 2015-11-09 05:03:59, jns...@gellyfish.co.uk wrote:
> perl6 -e 'my $a = "jsjsjs {"; for <a b> -> $b { say $b }'
> ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e
> Variable '$b' is not declared
> at -e:1
> ------> my $a = "jsjsjs {"; for <a b> -> ⏏$b { say $b }
>
> Obviously it is fine if the '{' is backslashed.
>
> Similarly:
>
> <ilmari> m: my $a = "{ 42"; for <a b> -> $b { say $b } # also LTA
> error
> <camelia> rakudo-moar 65bfb6: OUTPUT«===SORRY!=== Error while
> compiling /tmp/m116oiicso␤Two terms in a row␤at
> /tmp/m116oiicso:1␤------> my $a = "{ 42⏏"; for <a b> -> $b { say $b }
> # also LTA␤ expecting any of:␤ infix␤ infix stopper␤
> stateme…»
>
>
> This is perl6 version 2015.10-169-gfd3927d built on MoarVM version
> 2015.10-51-ga362d21