[Omaha.pm] Do you ~~ ?

[Travis McArthur]

Wasn't aware of this except in the "given/when" example shown.  Very nice!

Also, I thought given/when is in Perl 6 only? Did I miss something?  Admittedly I haven't had as much time to mess with hacking Perl lately!

Best Regards,
Travis

On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Theodore Katseres wrote:

> 2010/4/1 Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net>
> Wow. smartmatch.
> 
> use 5.10.0;
> if ($a ~~ $b) {
> 
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Smart-matching-in-detail
> 
> Anyone use this beast?
> 
> I use implicit smart matching with the  when statement the most.
> 
> eg.
> 
> given ( $a ) { 
>     when ( $b ) { dosomething(); }
>     default { dosomethingelse(); }
> }
> 
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