[perl #73772] [BUG] Rakudo returns the wrong thing from a <> quote with only whitespace in it

[Carl Mäsak]

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<TimToady> rakudo: say < >.elems
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85: OUTPUT«Method 'elems' not found for invocant
of class 'Perl6Str' [...]
<TimToady> hmm
<moritz_> rakudo: say < >.perl
<p6eval> rakudo db0f85: OUTPUT«""␤»
* masak submits rakudobug
<TimToady> looks to me like rakudo is making an unwarranted assumption there

...the unwarranted assumption being, IIUC, that the thing returned
should be Nil, not the empty string.