Re: *IN* Operator for the Perl wish list

[educated_foo]

You can also just do

    grep $_ == $value, 1,5,21,99;

which isn't much more typing.

[liz]

Rather than "grep", I would use List::Util's "first" function, because that short-circuits on the first match, rather than always trying all of the elements.

Liz

[ysth]

I haven't benchmarked it, but I suspect first has significantly more overhead, so might only be of benefit for long lists. I'd be interested in seeing a benchmark.

Update: yes, I mean even the XS version

[educated_foo]

Not necessarily -- List::Util has XS versions of all its functions.