hmm...
this issue has been discussed quite much way back.
but, I still think, that if the syntax is not supported, that is, it's supposed to work as normal kixtart syntax, then, it's a bug and that can be corrected.

to clarify, doing:
 Code:
left("some",2) = "mama"

does not produce "some" on the console and kixtart to crash.
why this should be different?
does not produce
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