From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:42:18 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Specify that the behaviour of $foo ~~ Range should only depend on the RHS
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Specify that the behaviour of $foo ~~ Range should only depend on the RHS
(and not from the value being checked, as Zefram remarks)
---
diff --git a/pod/perlsyn.pod b/pod/perlsyn.pod
index 8dfe75c..dbaa7a9 100644
--- a/pod/perlsyn.pod
+++ b/pod/perlsyn.pod
@@ -701,9 +701,8 @@ entries apply in those cases.
Array Regex array grep grep /$b/, @$a
Any Regex pattern match $a =~ /$b/
- Num Range[4] in numeric range
undef Range[4] always false
- Any Range[4] in string range
+ Any Range[4] in range
Any Num numeric equality $a == $b
Num numish[5] numeric equality $a == $b
@@ -716,7 +715,8 @@ entries apply in those cases.
3 - If a circular reference is found, we fall back to referential equality.
4 - a range is written EXPR..EXPR (using the C<..> range operator, but
NOT the three-dot version C<...>, which will be treated as a boolean
- operator)
+ operator). Numeric ranges will use numeric comparison: that is,
+ "4.5 ~~ 3..5" will be true.
5 - either a real number, or a string that looks like a number
The "matching code" doesn't represent the I<real> matching code,