1This distribution is a replacement for the builtin distribution.
2
3This package contains a selection of subroutines that people have
4expressed would be nice to have in the perl core, but the usage would not
5really be high enough to warrant the use of a keyword, and the size so
6small such that being individual extensions would be wasteful.
7
8After unpacking the distribution, to install this module type
9
10        perl Makefile.PL
11        make
12        make test
13        make install
14
15This distribution provides
16
17  min
18  max
19  minstr
20  maxstr
21  sum
22  reduce
23  reftype
24  blessed
25  weaken   (5.005_57 and later only)
26  isweak   (5.005_57 and later only)
27  dualvar
28  shuffle
29
30KNOWN BUGS
31
32There is a bug in perl5.6.0 with UV's that are >= 1<<31. This will
33show up as tests 8 and 9 of dualvar.t failing
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35
36Copyright (c) 1997-2005 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.
37This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
38modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
39