Thanks stevieb for bringing up this issue.

I am quite happy that I've never used the smartmatch operator and the given construct for any production code in Perl 5 (although not for the reason that I was clever, but for the reason that our production machines run very old versions of Perl).

I don't know all the details, so I may be wrong, but it seems to me something is going wrong there. I very much respect Leon T., and I also respect Sawyer X., but it appears that the P5P process has gone somewhat amok.

Anyway, I think that anyone concerned with this issue will have some interest reading these detailed comments from brian d foy: https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2017/12/beware-of-the-removal-of-when-in-perl-v5-28/.

In reply to Re: Update to smartmatch by Laurent_R
in thread Update to smartmatch by stevieb

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