FWIW, I can't find anything to back up the semantics in Synopsis 04 which discusses switch statements for Perl 6, or any discussion about this around when the patch was applied: http://grokbase.com/topic/2005/12/17/patch-latest-switch-say/k_GwZ7Yaw79E2TrDM48W57c_kns http://grokbase.com/topic/2005/12/16/smart-match-is-done/nwxrn5WihYTVqmHBi79cMN7pdC8Thread Previous