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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 4:44 PM Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> > If you actually want to remove it, then I'm *strongly* opposed. We can't
> > remove smartmatch until we provide a replacement *and* it goes through a
> > proper deprecation cycle (and by "proper" I mean much longer than the
> > usual 2 release cycles).
>
> It's gone through a 9 year deprecation cycle, with a mandatory
> experimental warning that you have to explicitly disable.
>
My understanding is that it can change, not that it's dropped entirely.
> Whether we remove it or change it, its going to break any existing code
> which uses it.
>
In my experience there's a small subset of the functionality that we can't
afford to drop: when ("string"), when (1) (but note that this will
generally work fine if it does stringwise equivalence), when (/regex/) and
when (undef).
The other 90% we can probably drop without much issues I suspect.
> > Smartmatch is *very* widely used in production code and we *completely*
> failed
> > to communicate that it's on its way out.
>
> We have been telling people not to use it for nearly a decade.
>
Not unambiguously. We've left them puzzled mostly.
Leon
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