From @ShimmerFairy

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)+/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)**3/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)**{3}/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢AAA｣

The braced version of ** stores all the matches of the capture it quantifies under one capture, instead of an array of captures like other quantifiers do (including brace-less **)

From @jnthn

On Wed Jul 01 01​:22​:01 2015, lue wrote​:

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)+/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)**3/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣
letter => ｢A｣

$ perl6 -e 'say "AAA" ~~ /$<letter>=(A)**{3}/'
｢AAA｣
letter => ｢AAA｣

The braced version of ** stores all the matches of the capture it
quantifies under one capture, instead of an array of captures like
other quantifiers do (including brace-less **)

Fixed, and test added in S05-metasyntax/repeat.t.

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@jnthn - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'