in reply to Perl 5.8.6 Released on Nov 27
goto & is now more robust - bugs in deep recursion and chained goto & have been fixed.
What implications does this have for tail recursion? What bugs does this fix? It'd be nice if the delta had reference to the RT #'s ...
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