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diff --git a/lib/overload.pm b/lib/overload.pm
index 05a3567..8a07efe 100644
--- a/lib/overload.pm
+++ b/lib/overload.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package overload;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.00';
+our $VERSION = '1.03';
 
 $overload::hint_bits = 0x20000; # HINT_LOCALIZE_HH
 
@@ -93,11 +93,7 @@ sub AddrRef {
 	return sprintf("$class_prefix$type(0x%x)", $addr);
 }
 
-sub StrVal {
-  (ref $_[0] && OverloadedStringify($_[0]) or ref($_[0]) eq 'Regexp') ?
-    (AddrRef(shift)) :
-    "$_[0]";
-}
+*StrVal = *AddrRef;
 
 sub mycan {				# Real can would leave stubs.
   my ($package, $meth) = @_;
@@ -174,7 +170,7 @@ __END__
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-overload - Package for overloading perl operations
+overload - Package for overloading Perl operations
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -426,7 +422,7 @@ The dereference operators must be specified explicitly they will not be passed t
 
 =item * I<Special>
 
-    "nomethod", "fallback", "=",
+    "nomethod", "fallback", "=", "~~",
 
 see L<SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>>.
 
@@ -521,6 +517,11 @@ The key C<"fallback"> governs what to do if a method for a particular
 operation is not found.  Three different cases are possible depending on
 the value of C<"fallback">:
 
+=head2 Smart Match
+
+The key C<"~~"> allows you to override the smart matching used by
+the switch construct. See L<feature>.
+
 =over 16
 
 =item * C<undef>
@@ -704,7 +705,10 @@ Package C<overload.pm> provides the following public functions:
 
 =item overload::StrVal(arg)
 
-Gives string value of C<arg> as in absence of stringify overloading.
+Gives string value of C<arg> as in absence of stringify overloading. If you
+are using this to get the address of a reference (useful for checking if two
+references point to the same thing) then you may be better off using
+C<Scalar::Util::refaddr()>, which is faster.
 
 =item overload::Overloaded(arg)
 
@@ -718,12 +722,12 @@ Returns C<undef> or a reference to the method that implements C<op>.
 
 =head1 Overloading constants
 
-For some application Perl parser mangles constants too much.  It is possible
-to hook into this process via overload::constant() and overload::remove_constant()
-functions.
+For some applications, the Perl parser mangles constants too much.
+It is possible to hook into this process via C<overload::constant()>
+and C<overload::remove_constant()> functions.
 
 These functions take a hash as an argument.  The recognized keys of this hash
-are
+are:
 
 =over 8