SPACE() function runtime crash

001 PRINT "HERE'S THE SPACE FUNCTION"
002 A=SPACE(6)
003 CRT '[':A:']'
D:\mvDemo>run test
HERE'S THE SPACE FUNCTION
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.maverickdbms.basic.Array.get(Array.java:249)
at test.run(test:2)
at org.maverickdbms.basic.Session.EXECUTE(Session.java:294)
at test.main(test:1)