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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
September 10, 2015 20:04
Subject:
Re: smartmatch needs your eyes
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>
wrote:

>   # Why do we warn on smart match in void?  smart match can have side
> effects
>   # like capturing or whatever the subroutine does.  I'm not sold on this
>   # warning. -- rjbs, 2015-09-09
>   # $_ ~~ \&test;
>

So can `$_ eq $obj`, yet we want that to warn. I don't believe we want C++
where `<<` can do anything; we still expect `~~` to perform a smart match
even if the specific definition of that is customizable.
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