Re^6: Smart enough for Smart Match??? (was "Understanding ...Given/When" )

But it is documented.

But when EXPR is one of the below exceptional cases, it is used directly as a boolean:

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a regular expression match, i.e. /REGEX/ or $foo =~ /REGEX/, or a negated regular expression match (!/REGEX/ or $foo !~ /REGEX/).
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It makes sense. It allows

given ($x) {
   when (/abc/) { ... }
   when (/def/) { ... }
   when (/ghi/) { ... }
}
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to mean

if    ($x =~ /abc/) { ... }
elsif ($x =~ /def/) { ... }
elsif ($x =~ /ghi/) { ... }
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Re^7: Smart enough for Smart Match??? (was "Understanding ...Given/When" ) by LanX (Saint) on Mar 04, 2010 at 23:05 UTC
What... OMG it took me a while to understand it ... yes it makes sense: `use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my @a=('abc'); given (@a) { print "$_\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! }` [download] OUTPUT: `ARRAY(0x8255a70) ARRAY qr/abc/` [download] Sigh ... do you agree that the docs could be more explicit? :) Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Smart enough for Smart Match??? (was "Understanding ...Given/When" ) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 04, 2010 at 23:46 UTC
It's right after where it documents `when($foo)` is equivalent to `when($_ ~~ $foo)`, and "/REGEX/" does appears. That's quite explicit. Now, maybe it could possibly be clearer. Documentation improvements are always welcome, especially from those who were confused by them. The latest version is available here. Submit a `diff -u` of your suggestion to `perlbug@perl.org`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]