Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:20:57PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> "Paul Makepeace" <paulm at paulm.com> writes:
> 
> > ... is starting to frustrate me. It's the one feature I am finding I'm
> > really missing from That Other Language.
> >
> >   if ($bar in @foo) {
> >     # ...
> >   }
> 
> use Perl6::Junction qw/any/;
> 
> if ($bar eq any(@foo)) {
>   # ...
> }

And note that Perl6::Junction is a relatively crack-free module - no
non-core deps and a pretty clean implementation. The only real crack in
there is the heavy use of operator overloading, and I've kinda reached the
point where that doesn't count as crack at all to me :)

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