Hi Utilitarian I've been playing around with Rakudo a little too. I don't know the why of it but it seems that the existence (or not) of a space between a loop or conditional statement and the opening curly-brace is significant. For instance this works as intended:

#!/usr/bin/perl6

use v6;

my $var="Does this work";
say $var;

for $var.split(' ') -> $word {
     if $word eq 'work' {
          say "end of string";
     }else
        {say "getting there...";
    }
}
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