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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
August 18, 2012 06:51
Subject:
Re: fixing smartmatch just hard enough (and when, too)
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CALJW-qFuPAz3J_Wfy_aPAMFHtHKoz6BAL7Akbp_pH9UC4zy_3g@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Ricardo Signes
<perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>wrote:

> ## Backcompat and ~~
>
[...]

>     As previously mentioned, the "switch" feature is considered highly
>     experimental; it is subject to change with little notice.  In
>     particular, both "given" and "when" have tricky behaviours that are
>     expected to change to become less tricky in the future.  Do not rely
>     upon their current (mis)implementations.
>     -- perlsyn
>

"~~" is not part of the "switch" feature. That paragraph is not relevant.
There's absolutely no mention of "~~" being considered experimental in its
5.16.0 docs!

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