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Just a couple more thoughts on the suggestion of an 'in' operator
(which others besides me have proposed).
The current convention is that punctuation operators like == != < are
numeric, while alphabetic ones like eq ne lt do string comparisons.
An 'in' operator doing string comparison follows that convention.
While you could also have an equivalent in== operator, in my
experience that operation is much less common than the string version.
As in Python, 'in' could work for both arrays and hashes:
$x in @array
$x in %hash # same as exists $hash{$x}
With the auto-dereferencing introduced in recent perls, the RHS could
be an array or hash ref.
$x in $hash_ref # same as exists $hash_ref->{$x}
I do not envisage the 'in' operator being part of some grand scheme
which will replace all functionality provided by smartmatch, but just
propose it as a simple operator which is useful in its own right and,
in my opinion, can make for clearer and more concise code.
--
Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
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