I could not find the ticket in response to which f041cf0f9c64 was written. I've updated the subject of this ticket. What we want is to fix the fallback of += without making it use the rhs's overloading. Rather than fix one bug and introduce a new one, the reversion leaves us with the same bug count — but the bug we knew about. This ticket no longer blocks 5.18.0 -- rjbs --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113834