NAME

Syntax::Infix::Smartmatch - Smartmatch done right

VERSION

version 0.010

SYNOPSIS

 say "YES" if $value ~~ [1, 2, qr/42/];

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This module is currently still experimental and the details of its behavior may still change.

This module implements a new, much simplified version of smartmatch. In particular the behavior only depends on the right side argument. In particular it will do the following based on the right side argument:

• undef

  This will return "not defined $left".

• object

  If the object has smartmatch overloading (note: this might disappear in a future Perl version), that is called. Otherwise it returns object identity.

• regex

  This is equivalent to "$left =~ $right".

• sub

  It will return the value of $right->($left)

• array

  This will return true if $left smartmatches any of the members of @$right.

• other

  This will return "$left equ $right" ("defined $left and $left eq $right").

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.