Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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> Given the following code > > ```perl > @{ $possibly_undef?->[0] }[0..10] > ``` In my understanding, cirmcumfix dereference and post-dereference do exactly the same thing, so I would read...

> So if that expression was on the right side of an assignment (I'm replacing `10` by `2`, for readability), you'd get: > > ```perl > # scalar: 3 times...

> The cloning of dirhandle bug isn't mentioned (probably because I neglected to write that for the dev release). That should absolutely be in the stable release though. Please take...

@richardleach Thanks a lot for your review! I'll go over it soon.

Note to self: mention the doc change from fdbbfbf41538c26b8b3c6edf37c5d861394c8af6.

Note to self: move `apostrophe_as_package_separator` and `smartmatch` unfeatures in the "Core Enhancements" section. Look at the deltas for 5.36 and 5.38 for examples.

> Note to self: mention the doc change from [fdbbfbf](https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/fdbbfbf41538c26b8b3c6edf37c5d861394c8af6). This was done by @thibaultduponchelle in 33c0fe42eb58965f02e21f3891d5d6069c0ce2e3.

After discussing this in the PSC meeting, we all agreed that the current behavior is correct.

> ``` > - my $use_utf8 = ($] le 5.006002) ? 'use utf8;' : ""; > + my $use_utf8 = ("$]" < 5.006002) ? 'use utf8;' : ""; > ```...

> > I definitely need to fix all those comparisons. > > I wonder how many more are on CPAN. [Over 300 distributions](https://grep.metacpan.org/search?q=\%24\]%20*[gl][te]) contain files that match `/\$\] *[gl][et]/`. This...