Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Jonathan Stowe]

2008/10/8 Nigel Rantor <wiggly at wiggly.org>:

>
> If anyone comes back and tell me that they think ~~ scans nicely in english,
> is easier to type and provides a better, clearer explanation of what it does
> in code than 'in' I will say no more on the subject because we would just be
> dealing with a huge gulf in our mental models of the world.
>

'~~' is not exactly the same as 'in' - it is 'smart match' and I'm
guessing it was chosen because of its similarity to '=~' which
everyone thinks of as 'match'.  I would hazard that finding a single
short unambiguous English word that would do instead might be
problematic.  If you need to say or think it out loud then "smart
match" is fine.

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