such as the smartmatch operator.
I've never used that in real code. Nor given/when for that matter.
I've tried to use both a few times for the sake of using them, and found that the reality didn't fit with my expectations, to the point where even reading the documentation over and over, I couldn't work out why I got the results I did. As such, neither have ever made it into my working vocabulary, despite that I know they are there.
Extending Perl requires far more than just implementing a few specific behaviours. It seems to me that you really need Mr Wall's particular brain -- and considerable time -- to see the full impact of such changes.
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I also haven't been able to "effectively use" the smart match operator. I've used it in some places to "just play around", but grep() or a List::Util function would have been just as good for the simple situations that I've used it in for experimentation.
I think that this thing is very complicated and is a "solution" in "search of a problem".
I haven't been able to figure out where this thing can be effectively used in ways that "normal" Perl is awkward or not sufficient. A big part of this is also whether or not the result of what it does is going to be "easily understandable".
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