From @masak

<masak> nom​: BEGIN { my $a = 42; END { say $a } }
<p6eval> rakudo fee891​: OUTPUT«Any()␤»
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> nom​: my $a = 42; END { say $a }
<p6eval> rakudo fee891​: OUTPUT«42␤»
<masak> both should work, IMNSHO.

From @usev6

This works now (output is identical on Moar, Parrot and JVM)​:

$ perl6 -e 'my $a = 42; END { say $a }'
42

$ perl6 -e 'BEGIN { my $a = 42; END { say $a } }'
42

I added two tests to S04-phasers/end.t with commit Raku/roast@958f3520e7

I'm closing this ticket now.

@usev6 - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'