and I realize that what I just typed doesn't help a whole lot, what if you
have a junction of things and you want to tell if any/one/all/none
smartmatch the same thing... OK..
-y
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 6:38 PM yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something that helps me reason about this is thinking of how regular
> expressions match against strings, to remember that which goes on which
> side is important...
>
> > "this has a Q in it" ~~ / 'Q' / # of course this works
>
> ｢Q｣
>
> > / 'Q' / ~~ "this has a Q in it" # of course this breaks
>
> Regex object coerced to string ...
>
>
> > say do given "this has a Q in it" { when / 'Q' / {"has a Q"}; default
> {"no match"}}
>
> has a Q
>
> > say do given / 'Q' / { when "this has a Q in it" {"has a Q"}; default
> {"no match"}}
>
> Regex object coerced to string ...
>
> I did have a place in the earlier discussion. I eventually realized that
> if I thought of junctions as analogous to regular expressions, then it was
> easier to remember which side of the smartmatch or given/when to put it.
>
> -y
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 3:31 PM Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > ... we'd need to go
>> > through detailed, calm, measured discussion if we're to minimize
>> > the pain it seems we'll inevitably endure pain to dig ourselves out
>> > of the hole we'd be in.
>>
>> Yes, this could be a bad one.
>>
>
