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perldelta entry for the varname improvement
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@@ -242,7 +242,12 @@ XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
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XXX Describe change here
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The names of variables whose names begin with a caret and are longer
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than two characters are now wrapped in braces, like they have to be in
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the source code.
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For example, C<Use of uninitialized value $^FOO> will be now
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be correctly shown as C<Use of uninitialized value ${^FOO}>.
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