There are several advantages to this:
+=over
+
=item *
C<$VERSION> is parsed in I<exactly> the same way as C<use NAME VERSION>
As it requires VERSION to be a numeric literal or v-string
literal, it can be statically parsed by toolchain modules
-without 'eval' the way MM->parse_version does for '$VERSION = ...'
+without C<eval> the way MM-E<gt>parse_version does for C<$VERSION = ...>
=item *
now it will become standard practice when Perl 5.12 is targeted the way
that 5.6 is today.
+=back
+
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=head2 Updated Modules
=item Initial support for mingw64 is now available
+=item Various bits of Perl's build infrastructure are no longer converted to win32 line endings at release time. If this hurts you, please speak up.
+
=back
=item Significant cleanups to core tests to ensure that language and
interpreter features are not used before they're tested.
+=item C<make test_porting> now runs a number of important pre-commit checks which might be of use to anyone working on the Perl core.
+
=item F<t/porting/podcheck.t> automatically checks the well-formedness of
POD found in all .pl, .pm and .pod files in the F<MANIFEST>, other than in
dual-lifed modules which are primarily maintained outside the Perl core.
The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
=cut
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-This is all changes through 6609e0408cfa30e0d5c739e4c818f8591c88c0bc
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