One of the few changes in Perl syntax now requires parentheses around all lists.

When did that happen? Why would p5p give us one less way to do things while breaking an unknown number of CPAN modules? What's the point?

As others explained, it happened more or less in v5.14.0. And the cited statement "now requires parentheses around all lists" is unfortunately wrong.

To make a long story short, you now have to have parentheses where they were always required by the documentation. A parser bug allowed to omit them sometimes. You don't have to wrap all lists in parentheses. In places like use, parentheses around lists are not required and were never required.

For the details, read on.

Alexander

The point is that occasionally new features of Perl can only be released by restricting old syntax which might result in ambiguous parsing.

But P5P isn't that careless: All modules undergo regression tests with every version of Perl. The results for CAD::Drawing can be seen here: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CAD-Drawing+0.26

As you see, it is well known that this module fails with all Perls starting from 5.18.2. And since then, as far as I know, the registered maintainer of the CPAN module should have received an email report about the failure.

Like Corion wrote, the fix is dead simple. So, if you know how to contact the author, it doesn't hurt to nudge him (again). He did the latest release in 2006, but might still be willing to maintain the module.

This happened in Perl 5.18, so about five years ago. I guess the breakage on CPAN wasn't too bad.