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You must be using 5.10.0, where the implementation had many bugs.
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Re^3: smart match operator should be smarter!
by zwon (Abbot) on Nov 21, 2009 at 18:48 UTC

    Yes, I'm using 5.10.0 (from Ubuntu 9.10, so it's not exactly 5.10.0), but I doesn't see any bugs. It looks like it works as it should work.

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      Fixing the aforementioned bugs required making ~~ non-commutative.
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        Yup! Have tried this in 5.10.1 and now see the difference. 

        use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

my @arr = (2, 5 , "aaa");

say "\@arr ~~ 5 matches" if @arr ~~ 5;
say "5 ~~ \@arr matches" if 5 ~~ @arr;
say "\@arr ~~ 3 matches" if @arr ~~ 3;
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5 ~~ @arr matches

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        But after reading "Smart matching in detail" from perlsyn I have the impression that @arr ~~ 3 expression falls under 

            Any  Num   numeric equality  $a == $b

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        rule, so it should be equal to @arr == 3, and it's not, so what rule is actually applied in this case? And BTW is there any way to see what comparison have been actually performed?
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