I executed some code that was in the correspondence about the charnames regression, and got a panic. The code that causes it is: use strict; use charnames ':full'; $x = qr/\N{THAI CHARACTER SARA I}/; The panic message is: panic: top_env perl: perl.c:542: perl_destruct: Assertion `PL_scopestack_ix == 1' failed. Either removing the 'strict' or adding a 'my' to the $x fixes the problem.