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On 25 oct, 17:39, je...@fsck.com (Jesse Vincent) wrote: > > > My question is quite simple: is there any progress made on this topic > > > since 30 may 2011 ? > > > No, not really. Nobody can agree on what smartmatch is meant/intended > > to do, which to me signals a design flaw to begin with. Did the > > original implementor know what he intended it to do? > > I'd argue that yes, there is some progress. Jesse Luehrs did an initial > pass at extracting smartmatch into a module and then implementing a > "less-smart" smartmatch designed by rjbs that could be swapped out > lexically. > > I believe the right next step in the directioon of improving things > is to figure out how to get Jesse's extraction of the core smartmatch > implementation into core as a module. > > The other big bit of progress (as mentioned by others) is that we've > actually come to grips with how horribly broken the feature is and > how much work it's going to be to unwind it to do it right. I agree, it is much work to do smartmatching right. Is there any intention by Jesse Luehrs to make his implementation of the "less-smart" smartmatch module available to perl5.porters (maybe even to CPAN ?) early in the game so that it can be discussed before it is made into a core module (or is it better to let Jesse Luehrs write his module without interference ?)Thread Next