Re: using smartmatch for range matching

[tybalt89]

There is  1416 <= $number <= 1494 in later perls.

[LanX]

IMHO it's also MUCH more efficient than the smartmatch, which will check against every element of a potentially huge temporary array, instead of just the boundaries.

Edit

And certainly better readable.

Saying so, having an in LIST operator wouldn't harm, but that's not the demonstrated use case.

[jwkrahn]

Sorry, but this sticks out like a sore thumb!

And certainly better readable.

Either:

And certainly better readability.

Or maybe:

And certainly more readable.

       :-)

[LanX]

Broken English is the most spoken language in the world. Better adapt! ;p

Funny enough, I literally just read a discussion in the guardian where a bunch of Brits were discussing how easy English supposedly was.

The less languages they knew, the more confident they were ... xD

PS: "He who learns a new language acquires a new soul" - Czech proverb(?)

[perltux]

Thank you, that's a good alternative, but i will have to figure out the minimum Perl version required to use this, does anyone know when it was introduced?

[tybalt89]

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