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Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup <at> perl.org> writes:
>Oh, and let’s deprecate smartmatch while we are at it.
I agree, and for the one case where smartmatch is useful in practice:
if ($x ~~ @values) { ... }
add a new operator 'in' borrowed from Python
if ($x in @values) { ... }
which does an 'eq' comparison with each item in the list, stopping and returning
true if one matches, false otherwise.
I would gladly remove smartmatch from my code if Perl provided an 'in' keyword
to replace it, which is the only thing I use smartmatch for anyway.
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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
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