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More excitement: order matters: ``` leo@hevva:~/src/bleadperl/perl [git] $ ./perl -Ilib -e 'use v5.39; use O q(Concise);' 3 leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC ->(end) 1 enter v ->2 2 stub v ->3 -...

> There are two «if (shortver >= SHORTVER(5, 35))»s in there, can't they be merged? They could, but that might make the logic harder to read. At the moment, there's...

Actually this doesn't fix any back-compat. It just adds new behaviour. Probably best to save it for .39 after all.

Resolved conflicts and repushed; retargeted for 5.39 instead.

This doesn't feel like it's actually a release blocker as such. I think it would be good to put in some sort of message to warn users "this is a...

Plus my overall thinking is that this is quite a large body of work to surprise on folks from a new contributor. I would have much preferred to have some...

FYI, having inspected this on older perls, this behaviour doesn't seem to have changed since at least 5.30, maybe even older.

Either I'm missing something subtle here, or this is expected behaviour. `\g{-1}` refers to a previous group, but in the example `m/(?:\g{-1}|...)/` there is no preceeding group (there in fact...

FYI behaviour unchanged since 5.18 up until current blead.

Oh I forgot to add - most of the point of this is to allow *live* editing of volume levels, via some interactive faders on the screen. Rather than just...