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* Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> [2015-09-10T11:26:08]
> [ blah blah blah ]
1. It sounds like we really want to have '~~x' and 'x~~' overloads, with '~~'
deprecated, since the two forms are totally different.
2. People still really want to match literals. when (1) { ... }
That's understandable. The question is whether when has two special cases
or whether you can say ($x ~~ 10) to mean ==, just for the sake of keeping
when(EXPR) defined purely in terms of ~~.
Between the two, I think we should allow a literal on the rhs of ~~.
Upside: lots of given/when switchy code just works
Downside: people confused that when($x=5) is not the same as when(5)
I think the upside wins. The error message can be made clear.
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I think we should get these changes done, then smoke CPAN for any
super-critical breakage, and move forward.
Tony: think this is something you could make happen?
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rjbs
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