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This whole subthread is rebuilding my resolve. Plain scalars should go pound
sand. I don't believe I'll see a way to use them on the rhs of ~~ that will be
straightforward.
I think we're better off with helpers to build tests, like Smart::Match.
sub smartgrep ($test, @items) { return grep { $_ ~~ $test } @items; }
If we want the test to be numeric, we can call:
smartgrep num(4), @input;
Making that faster than 0+@input subroutine calls should be possible in the
future if someone decides it's worth doing.
Meanwhile, we have:
when { $_ == 1 } { ... }
...which is still shorter than:
if ($_ == 1) { ...; break; }
Also, if we disallow "when (5)" now, it can be enabled later, but if we allow
it now, we're stuck with it.
That was the plan when I first posted to this thread, and I don't know why I
got distracted by this idea that I'd already dismissed ages ago.
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rjbs
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