[perl #125434] Variable lives outside of loop's scope

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The following code:

loop (my $i = 0;;) { }
loop (my $i = 0;;) { }

Gives the following error:
Potential difficulties:
    Redeclaration of symbol $i
    at my-i.p6:2
    ------> loop (my $i⏏ = 0;;) { }

Also, rakudo goes into a state where it hangs with 99% CPU usage.


$ perl6 --version
This is perl6 version 2015.05-200-g2c58ee1 built on MoarVM version
2015.05-79-g458940f