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.