Living with smart match breakage

[Michael Jemmeson]

On 4 July 2013 13:24, Fred Youhanaie <fly at anydata.co.uk> wrote:
>
> perl -E 'use experimental "smartmatch";say "it works in perl $^V"'
> Can't locate experimental.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /opt/perl-5.16.2/lib/site_perl/5.16.2/i686-linux
> /opt/perl-5.16.2/lib/site_perl/5.16.2 /opt/perl-5.16.2/lib/5.16.2/i686-linux
> /opt/perl-5.16.2/lib/5.16.2 .) at -e line 1.
>
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
>
> Any advances on 16? ;-)
>
> google sez 5.18.0 :-)
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.18.0/pod/perldelta.pod#New_mechanism_for_experimental_features
>

That's the 'experimental' warnings category. The 'experimental' module
(https://metacpan.org/module/experimental ) which provides a simpler
way to use them is not core as of 5.18