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+This distribution is a replacement for the builtin distribution.
+
+This package contains a selection of subroutines that people have
+expressed would be nice to have in the perl core, but the usage would not
+really be high enough to warrant the use of a keyword, and the size so
+small such that being individual extensions would be wasteful.
+
+This distribution provides
+
+ min
+ max
+ minstr
+ maxstr
+ sum
+ reduce
+ reftype
+ blessed
+ weaken (5.005_57 and later only)
+ isweak (5.005_57 and later only)
+ dualvar
+ shuffle