From @masak

<moritz_> rakudo​: / a+ +/
<p6eval> rakudo c4857a​: OUTPUT«Method 'panic' not found for invocant
of class 'Regex;Match' [...]
<moritz_> masak​: care to submit?
* masak submits rakudobug
<moritz_> error while trying to produce an error message, it seems
<masak> how meta.

From @jnthn

On Sat May 01 13​:40​:04 2010, masak wrote​:

<moritz_> rakudo​: / a+ +/
<p6eval> rakudo c4857a​: OUTPUT«Method 'panic' not found for invocant
of class 'Regex;Match' [...]
<moritz_> masak​: care to submit?
* masak submits rakudobug
<moritz_> error while trying to produce an error message, it seems
<masak> how meta.

Fixed it; now we get the expected error​:

/ a+ +/
Can't quantify zero-width atom at line 1

Given to moritz++ for spectests.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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

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

From @kyleha

This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/unknown.t

commit cb65adf5177e781c203e37e0ba4a9df6b372ccc8
Author​: moritz <moritz@​c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64>
Date​: Sun May 30 13​:54​:24 2010 +0000

  [t/spec] tests for RT #​74832
 
  git-svn-id​: http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs@&#8203;30995 c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64

diff --git a/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/unknown.t b/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/unknown.t
index 0ec2ffb..8b18392 100644
--- a/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/unknown.t
+++ b/t/spec/S05-metasyntax/unknown.t
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use v6;
 use Test;
 
-plan 8;
+plan 10;
 
 # L<S05/Simplified lexical parsing of patterns/not all non-identifier glyphs are currently meaningful as metasyntax>
 
@@ -24,4 +24,10 @@ lives_ok({"aa!" ~~ /'a'/}, 'quoted "a" is valid');
     ok '!' !~~ /<foo>/, '\\{ in a rule (-)';
 }
 
+# RT #74832
+{
+    nok eval('/ a+ + /'), 'Cannot parse regex a+ +';
+    ok "$!" ~~ /quantif/, 'error message mentions quantif{y,ier}';
+}
+
 # vim: ft=perl6