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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:58:02 +0100, "Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:42:24 +0200 > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > $x ~~ 42 --> $x == 42 ??? > > $x ~~ "foo" --> $x eq "foo" ??? > > I expect not. > > my $x = 1; > > $x ~~ "1.0" > > does what? It's this "try to guess from many possible types of match" > that is deemed the core problem of toosmartforitsowngood-match in the > first place. If the case was keep it simple, your example would fail, as $x ~~ "1.0" => 1 eq "1.0" which is false, and I would accept that your case would be valid for $x ~~ 1.0 => 1 == 1.0 where it would match, and again I tend to agree -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next