Re^3: "when" and replacements

To be true, I also had some trouble before I got my head around this given ... when. The whole idea of the default smart match takes some time to getting used to. If I want a smart match, I'll ask for one, explicitly, in all other cases I use something else, explicitly.

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Re^4: "when" and replacements by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 07, 2011 at 08:53 UTC
using `$_ =~` at the beginning of the stuff in parens should be enough to indicate "I don't want a smart match"; evaluate it the same as a mundane `if` statement, in the same way as the relational operators. After all, I might want the single-branch feature of `when` and have other cases that do use more usual match criteria.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: "when" and replacements by LanX (Saint) on May 07, 2011 at 09:01 UTC
Yeah, thats the reason why I never use `give/when` and prefer the `for/if/elsif/last` workaround. Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]