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On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:20:01AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> [2015-10-06T10:26:19]
> > So will when(1) always need to be written as when($_ == 1) now?
> > And if so, are when(1) and when($x) now equivalent to
> >
> > if (1) { ...; break }
> > if ($x) { ...; break }
>
> The goal state is that when(...){...} is directly equivalent to a smartmatch,
So for final clarity, is
when (EXPR) {...}
intended to always be exactly equal to
if ($_ =~ EXPR) {...; break }
(with the rules for smartmatch stating that it will croak for various RHS
values, such as a simple numeric 1)?
If so, how does one write something functionally equivalent to when(1)
now?
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