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The .gist call in the following code hangs indefinitely:

    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_) { say @_.gist };

It shouldn't hang, because checking the argument for laziness returns True, and 
indexing it does not hang either:

    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_) { say @_.is-lazy };  # True
    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_) { say @_[42] };      # 43

And now, this is where it gets really weird: When calling `.is-lazy` or `.[]` 
on the parameter *first*, then a *subsequent* .gist on it no longer hangs:

    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_) { say @_.is-lazy; say @_.gist };  # 
True␤[...]
    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_) { say @_[1];      say @_.gist };  # 
1␤[...]

For comparison, here are some variations which also do not hang:

    my @a = 1..Inf;  say @a.gist;  # [...]

    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(@_) { say @_.gist };  # [...]

    my @a = 1..Inf;  foo @a;  sub foo(*@_ is raw) { say @_.gist };  # (1 2 3 4 
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 
59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 
85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 ...)


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This is Rakudo version 2016.04-210-gc59e4dc built on MoarVM version 2016.05
implementing Perl 6.c.

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