What...

OMG it took me a while to understand it ... yes it makes sense:

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my @a=('abc');
given (@a) {
    print "$_\n";
    when (/ARRAY/  ) { print "ARRAY\n" ;continue}      # regex-match!
    when (/abc/  ) { print '/abc/'."\n" ;continue}     # no match
    when (qr/abc/  ) { print 'qr/abc/'."\n" ;continue} # smart-match!
}

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OUTPUT: 

ARRAY(0x8255a70)
ARRAY
qr/abc/

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Sigh ... do you agree that the docs could be more explicit? :)

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^7: Smart enough for Smart Match??? (was "Understanding ...Given/When" ) by LanX
in thread Understanding the benefit of Given/When ... by LanX

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