"Commutativity breakage" should probably be "commutativity's breakage", which can also be written as "breakage of commutativity". I was going to include a change to the latter in the aforementioned patch. Suggestions welcome.
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Bear in mind my awareness of my own limitations in this regard, but consider some variation of:
Code references are no longer treated specially,
but now, just as any other scalar,
when they appear on the left hand side of ~~,
because their previously special treatment broke the commutativity of the operator.
Ie. That special treatment meant that coderef ~~ X did not produce the same result as X ~~ coderef
IMNSHO, it would have been better to have applied the special treatment of coderefs, to both sides of the operator, rather than discard it completely. The whole point of a coderef is the result it produces, not its (transient) value.
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