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Matching simply

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A little over ten years ago, when Perl 5.18 was approaching its release date, I released match::simple. This was mostly in response to the smartmatch operator (~~) being deprecated, but also a solution to the incredibly arcane rules for…

A Less Smart Smartmatch

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The smartmatch operator (~~) introduced in Perl 5.10 (and borrowed from Perl 6) has been the subject of much criticism. Its behaviour changes based on the types of its arguments (arrays vs hashes vs numbers vs strings vs …)….