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a bit. [561]

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The autouse pragma didn't work for Multi::Part::Function::Names.

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caller() could cause core dumps in certain situations.  Carp was
sometimes affected by this problem.  In particular, caller() now
returns a subroutine name of C<(unknown)> for subroutines that have
been removed from the symbol table.

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chop(@list) in list context returned the characters chopped in
reverse order.  This has been reversed to be in the right order. [561]

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Configure no longer includes the DBM libraries (dbm, gdbm, db, ndbm)
when building the Perl binary.  The only exception to this is SunOS 4.x,
which needs them. [561]

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The behaviour of non-decimal but numeric string constants such as
"0x23" was platform-dependent: in some platforms that was seen as 35,
in some as 0, in some as a floating point number (don't ask).  This
was caused by Perl's using the operating system libraries in a situation
where the result of the string to number conversion is undefined: now
Perl consistently handles such strings as zero in numeric contexts.

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Several debugger fixes: exit code now reflects the script exit code,
condition C<"0"> now treated correctly, the C<d> command now checks
line number, C<$.> no longer gets corrupted, and all debugger output
now goes correctly to the socket if RemotePort is set. [561]

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The debugger (perl5db.pl) has been modified to present a more
consistent commands interface, via (CommandSet=580).  perl5db.t was
also added to test the changes, and as a placeholder for further tests.

See L<perldebug>.

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The debugger has a new C<dumpDepth> option to control the maximum
depth to which nested structures are dumped.  The C<x> command has
been extended so that C<x N EXPR> dumps out the value of I<EXPR> to a
depth of at most I<N> levels.

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The debugger can now show lexical variables if you have the CPAN
module PadWalker installed.

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The order of DESTROYs has been made more predictable.

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Perl 5.6.0 could emit spurious warnings about redefinition of
dl_error() when statically building extensions into perl.
This has been corrected. [561]

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L<dprofpp> -R didn't work.

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C<*foo{FORMAT}> now works.

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Infinity is now recognized as a number.

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UNIVERSAL::isa no longer caches methods incorrectly.  (This broke
the Tk extension with 5.6.0.) [561]

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Lexicals I: lexicals outside an eval "" weren't resolved
correctly inside a subroutine definition inside the eval "" if they
were not already referenced in the top level of the eval""ed code.

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Lexicals II: lexicals leaked at file scope into subroutines that
were declared before the lexicals.

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Lexical warnings now propagating correctly between scopes
and into C<eval "...">.

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C<use warnings qw(FATAL all)> did not work as intended.  This has been
corrected. [561]

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warnings::enabled() now reports the state of $^W correctly if the caller
isn't using lexical warnings. [561]

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Line renumbering with eval and C<#line> now works. [561]

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