[RFC] Panic when given empty character class <[ ]> #435
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Description:
Check whether the QAST node has any children to determine if it is
empty. The exception are the backslash cclass nodes (\b, \n, \s, etc).
When providing a fix for Rakudo Issue 1622, there was some discussion about whether the empty character class should be allowed at all (see discussion here).
Should this panic behavior be adopted as part of the official behavior of Perl 6 in future releases (6.d+) despite it being somewhat at odds with the behavior detailed in the roast before?