Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Tue Oct 7 17:41:59 BST 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:
>
> On 7 Oct 2008, at 16:04, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
>> ... is starting to frustrate me. It's the one feature I am finding I'm
>> really missing from That Other Language.
>>
>>  if ($bar in @foo) {
>>   # ...
>>  }
>
> Smart match innit?
>
> use 5.010;
> if ( $bar ~~ @foo ) {
>  # ...
> }

Oh cool. I think my Debian being stuck on 5.8 demotivated me from
learning about 5.10.

Paul, more motivated now

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> Andy Armstrong, Hexten
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