in reply to info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed

the release announcement says it supports them
Are you sure?

When I search the release announcement for "package", I find exactly three hits in two lines:

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Re^2: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed
by sergstesh (Novice) on Apr 29, 2010 at 19:42 UTC

    Yes, I am sure. For example, http://freshmeat.net/projects/perl#release_315792 :


    "
    Changes: This release introduces several new features, such as caller(), anonymous packages, named parameters, the Yada Yada operator, and pluggable keywords.
    "
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      I think that whoever wrote the summary for freshmeat was mis-informed. In the official announcement I don't find anything like that, neither in the perl5120delta document, the tests or even the commit messages of the git repository.
      Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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        Well, I see a number of release announcements with the same statement at other sites, probably they all were copied from the same single erroneous one.

        Thanks.
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