From @masak

<wollmers> I wonder if the specs allow insignificant white-space in
literals, e.g like say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<masak> std​: say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<p6eval> std 26365​: OUTPUT«ok 00​:04 35m␤»
<masak> rakudo​: say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<p6eval> rakudo 5c8015​: OUTPUT«perl6regex parse error​: Invalid digit
in \x[...], \o[...], or \c[...] at offset 19, found ' ' [...]
<masak> wollmers​: opinions differ. :)
* masak submits rakudobug

From @kyleha

This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in t/spec/S02-literals/misc-interpolation.t

commit 4fcd5328be08a2bd3e55f8d21967e30342358c2e
Author​: kyle <kyle@​c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64>
Date​: Thu Aug 13 03​:19​:09 2009 +0000

  [t/spec] Test for RT #​65004
 
  git-svn-id​: http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs@&#8203;27975 c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64

diff --git a/t/spec/S02-literals/misc-interpolation.t b/t/spec/S02-literals/misc-interpolation.t
index 7c7080e..3c9656c 100644
--- a/t/spec/S02-literals/misc-interpolation.t
+++ b/t/spec/S02-literals/misc-interpolation.t
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ These tests derived from comments in L<http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/233
 
 =end pod
 
-plan 38;
+plan 39;
 
 my $world = "World";
 my $number = 1;
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ is(" \c[111] \c[107] ", ' o k ', "\\c[] respects whitespaces around it");
 # L<S02/Literals/separating the numbers with comma:>
 is("x  \x[41,42,43]  x",     "x  ABC  x",  "\\x[] allows multiple chars (1)");
 is("x  \x[41,42,00043]  x",  "x  ABC  x",  "\\x[] allows multiple chars (2)");
+is("x  \x[ 41, 42, 43 ]  x", "x  ABC  x",  "\\x[] allows multiple chars with white space");
 is("x  \c[65,66,67]  x",     "x  ABC  x",  "\\c[] allows multiple chars (1)");
 is("x  \c[65,66,000067]  x", "x  ABC  x",  "\\c[] allows multiple chars (2)");
 

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

From @kyleha

On Wed Apr 22 14​:04​:21 2009, masak wrote​:

<wollmers> I wonder if the specs allow insignificant white-space in
literals, e.g like say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<masak> std​: say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<p6eval> std 26365​: OUTPUT«ok 00​:04 35m␤»
<masak> rakudo​: say "\x[ c4, 20, c4 ]";
<p6eval> rakudo 5c8015​: OUTPUT«perl6regex parse error​: Invalid digit
in \x[...], \o[...], or \c[...] at offset 19, found ' ' [...]
<masak> wollmers​: opinions differ. :)
* masak submits rakudobug

This bug has been fixed, and there are now tests for it in the spectest
suite. I'm resolving this ticket.

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