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"Smart" match is a pile of shit, and anyone reading the manual description for it should conclude the same. You can't know what it does unless you can remember
by mjd 15y ago
"Smart" match is a pile of shit, and anyone reading the manual description for it should conclude the same. You can't know what it does unless you can remember the details of a 23-item table.
It's undergoing major revision, and not a minute too soon.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoIs it that bad in Perl 6 too?
- chromatic 15y agoNo, because Perl 6 has a coherent type system.