@@ -428,6 +428,27 @@ manager will later use a regex to expand these into links.
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431+ =item * C<&CORE::__CLASS__> no longer returns invalid results
432+
433+ C<CORE::__CLASS__> would work as expected when used as a bareword or aliased:
434+
435+ use feature qw(class);
436+ class Foo {
437+ BEGIN { *cls = \&CORE::__CLASS__; }
438+ method bar() {
439+ my $class1 = CORE::__CLASS__; # ok
440+ my $class2 = cls; # ok
441+ }
442+ }
443+
444+ But when called with an ampersand (C<&CORE::__CLASS__()>) or through a
445+ reference (C<< my $ref = \&CORE::__CLASS__; $ref->() >>), it would return
446+ unrelated strings. These runtime calls have been fixed to throw an error of the
447+ form C<&CORE::__CLASS__ cannot be called directly> instead of silently
448+ returning incorrect results.
449+
450+ [GH #23737]
451+
431452=item * C<parse_subsignature()> can now handle empty subroutine signatures
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433454Previously, calling the C<parse_subsignature()> API function with an empty