I think this bug should now be fixed in 456ade5 -- it no longer segfaults on the test program I'm giving it. The problem appears to have been that 'when' statements (and 'loop' and 'repeat') were failing to create the implicit $/ lexical var (as well as $_ and $!), and thus the 'make' function would segfault when attempting to set $/.ast .
The test program I was using no longer segfaults as of 456ade5: $ cat x grammar A { regex TOP { \' (.*?) \' {*} } }; class B { method TOP($/) { when * { make ['Text', ~$0]; } } }; A.parse("'foo'", :action(B.new)) or die 'no match'; say $/.ast.perl; $ ./perl6 x ["Text", "foo"] $ I'll assign the ticket to moritz++, who can then decide what spectests (if any) we need and then close the ticket. Thanks! Pm