Re: Using smart matching to find whether an array contains a string

Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis <at> gmx.de> writes:

>The very idea of smart matching fundamentally clashes with Perl 5
>on this point, since it is supposed to look at the type of its
>argument to figure out what kind of comparison operator to use to
>establish boolean truth.

Or in other words, Larry was wise to create two separate equality operators
== and eq.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>

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