Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[Kevin Walker]

>Perl currently only has C<eq> and C<cmp> operators which work 
>case-sensitively.
>It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents.

I think this is an excellent idea.  I personally would find it very useful.

>  $a eq/i $b
>  $a cmp/i $b
>
>This still leaves some room for future additions to eq and cmp if desired

Perhaps this is the place for optional fancier extensions which do 
the right thing for unicode.  (If the /i modifier for regexes changed 
to take unicode issues into account, then cmp/i and eq/i should do 
the same, of course.)