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in reply to Re^2: Perl 5.34 is released (bad code example)
in thread Perl 5.34 is released

"qr/{,3}/ was always allowed"

Nope. 

$ perl -E 'say $]'
5.032001

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$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'my $str = "foobar"; say 1 if $str =~ /[o]{1,2}/'
1

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$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'my $str = "foobar"; say 1 if $str =~ /[o]{,2}/'
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- 
+HERE in m/[o]{ <-- HERE ,2}/ at -e line 1.

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