From @japhb

Eventually golfed down to just 7 characters, but in general trying to
cast a new empty string to Numeric segfaults nom​:

  http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-10-04#i_4519423

-'f

From @jnthn

On Wed Oct 05 15​:57​:51 2011, gjb@​sonic.net wrote​:

Eventually golfed down to just 7 characters, but in general trying to
cast a new empty string to Numeric segfaults nom​:

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-10-04#i_4519423

This segfault is now fixed; there was no doubt a variety of ways to
trigger it. Also made Str.new lead to the empty string, which seems
sane. So now​:

+Str.new
0

Tests needed.

/jnthn

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

From @tadzik

On Sat Oct 08 14​:42​:01 2011, jnthn@​jnthn.net wrote​:

+Str.new
0

Tests needed.

/jnthn

Test added in 9219d0e, closable.

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