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* Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> [2015-09-24T08:06:44] > So my tentative conclusion is that smartmatch in Perl 6 is too complicated > to use comfortably. It can sometimes be used correctly, but the effort > of doing so exceeds the convenience gained by it. This has been my tentative conclusion for some time, as well. Another difficulty, I think, is that there are places in its dispatch that seem filled in with arbitrary-feeling behavior "because they had to do /something/", rather than because it is the obvious thing that should be done. Just like we had in Perl 5, ish. > Which sounds rather like the situation we got into in Perl 5. It seems > that the Perl 6 folks could benefit from some of our wisdom. One cannot > truly appreciate smartmatch until one has seen it in its original Perl > 5 context. Ha! :) -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next