NAME

       match::smart - clone of smartmatch operator

SYNOPSIS

          use v5.10;
          use match::smart;

          if ($this |M| $that)
          {
             say "$this matches $that";
          }

DESCRIPTION

       match::smart provides a match operator "|M|" that acts like more or less identically to the (as of Perl
       5.18) deprecated smart match operator.

       If you don't like the crazy Sub::Infix operator, you can alternatively export a more normal function:

          use v5.10;
          use match::smart qw(match);

          if (match($this, $that))
          {
             say "$this matches $that";
          }

   Differences with ~~
       There were major changes to smart match between 5.10.0 and 5.10.1. This module attempts to emulate the
       behaviour of the operator in more recent versions of Perl. In particular, 5.18.0 (minus the warnings).
       Divergences not noted below should be considered bugs.

       While the real smart match operator implicitly takes references to operands that are hashes or arrays,
       match::smart's operator does not.

          @foo ~~ %bar       # means: \@foo ~~ \%bar
          @foo |M| %bar      # means: scalar(@foo) |M| scalar(%bar)

       If you want the "\@foo ~~ \%bar" behaviour, you need to add the backslashes yourself:

          \@foo |M| \%bar

       Similarly:

          "foo" ~~  /foo/    # works
          "foo" |M| /foo/    # no worky!
          "foo" |M| qr/foo/  # do this instead

       match::smart treats the "MATCH" method on blessed objects (if it exists) like an overloaded "~~". This is
       for compatibility with match::simple, and for compatibility with pre-5.10 Perls that don't allow
       overloading "~~".

BUGS

       Please report any bugs to <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=match-simple>.

SEE ALSO

       match::simple.

       This module uses Exporter::Tiny.

AUTHOR

       Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017 by Toby Inkster.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
       LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.