Double ~ is already extremely rare currently, and using ~~ such that it's parsed differently with my patch applied seems only possible in contrieved situations.

Based on what analysis? Is this just your opinion based on your experience or is it actually backed up a sampling of Perl modules from CPAN?

My point here is that i think this all is an interesting and clever idea that should go through the acceptance process, but that IMO you will need better evidence than that which you and Juerd have provided so far. Anyway.... I actually agree that this will probably prove to be a very rare construct, but you should have some solid numbers to back it up. Anyway, i hope you try to get this into blead, i think it would be nice.

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demerphq

In reply to Re^5: Smart match in p5 by demerphq
in thread Smart match in p5 by xmath

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