Hi kcott,
Assuming the version number refers to a date (YYYY.MM), it looks like my copy of Perl6 is about 18 months old: perhaps the behaviour you describe is new.
Yes, the version number refers to the date (year and month).

With the latest available version of Rakudo Star / Perl 6: 

This is Rakudo version 2017.07 built on MoarVM version 2017.07
implementing Perl 6.c.

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I obtain exactly the same results as yours, with the presence or absence of a new line apparently making no difference to the output; and with the subroutine call stack in the output when die is called from a subroutine.

I may also have missed holli's point, but I can't see a difference.

And the documentation (https://docs.perl6.org/routine/die) says nothing on that.

In reply to Re^2: [Perl 6]: Small discoveries VI, die by Laurent_R
in thread [Perl 6]: Small discoveries VI, die by holli

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