Living with smart match breakage

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Mark Fowler <mark at twoshortplanks.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> I think it may be easier to list the cases that could be expected to
>> *continue* to work in the future;
>
> It's my understanding that smart match will continue to work *as* *is* in
> all future versions of Perl if you enable experimental smart match
> behaviour in your code. The point in the declaration is to say 'I want you
> to try to have the behaviour that existed when this was an experimental
> feature, not whatever the behaviour is now' - i.e. to tell whatever version
> of Perl your code is running on to always use smart match as it worked in
> 5.18.

I'm pretty out of touch, but I think that describes Jesse's plan for
backward compatibility of opcodes; however, this bit made me think
that wasn't the goal in this instance:
> After a lot of talk about making ~~ pluggable across different scopes, I think it's a non-starter. It's just not the kind of thing we can plug this way, because of the way in which we expect it to be used. If we expect users to pass a test from their code to some other code, they need to know how that code will use it. It needs to be the same everywhere.