From @masak

<TimToady> rakudo​: say < >.elems
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85​: OUTPUT«Method 'elems' not found for invocant
of class 'Perl6Str' [...]
<TimToady> hmm
<moritz_> rakudo​: say < >.perl
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85​: OUTPUT«""␤»
* masak submits rakudobug
<TimToady> looks to me like rakudo is making an unwarranted assumption there

...the unwarranted assumption being, IIUC, that the thing returned
should be Nil, not the empty string.

From @jnthn

On Tue Mar 23 09​:57​:24 2010, masak wrote​:

<TimToady> rakudo​: say < >.elems
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85​: OUTPUT«Method 'elems' not found for invocant
of class 'Perl6Str' [...]
<TimToady> hmm
<moritz_> rakudo​: say < >.perl
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85​: OUTPUT«""␤»
* masak submits rakudobug
<TimToady> looks to me like rakudo is making an unwarranted assumption
there

...the unwarranted assumption being, IIUC, that the thing returned
should be Nil, not the empty string.

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

From @pmichaud

Now fixed in 841262f. Assigning to moritz++ for test verification to
close ticket.

Pm

From @moritz

Now tested in S02-literals/quoting-whitespace.t

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