# New Ticket Created by Darek Cidlinsky
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If a newline precedes the infinite list operator and the "next item" sub is
given as a block, the program fails at runtime with an incomprehensible error
report:
> *
> in any at
> ~/.rakudobrew/moar-nom/install/share/perl6/runtime/CORE.setting.moarvm line 1
> in block <unit> at blah.p6 line 5
(I substituted the "~" into the full path.)
For example:
> (1,1,{$^a + $^b} ... *)[7].say
works OK (yields 21). If we split it into two lines like this:
> (1,1,{$^a + $^b}
> ... *)[7].say
, we get the aforementioned error.
However, if we use Whatever code like this:
> (1,1,*+*
> ... *)[7].say
, it still works OK and says 21.
I think that
1) the behavior should be consistent (let the newline be either always
permitted or always forbidden), and
2) should the newline before the ... operator be forbidden, the error
message could be clearer than a single asterisk.
