On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:30:47AM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
:     I just reread the table of smart matches in Synopsis 4, and I realized
: that it doesn't say what is returned by a ~~ b.  For example, the first line
: of this table says
: 
:  
: 
:   $_      $x        Type of Match Implied    Matching Code
: 
:     ======  =====     =====================    =============
: 
:     Any     Code<$>    scalar sub truth         match if $x($_)
: 
:  
: 
: This is fine when $_ ~~ $x is called in boolean context.  But what if the
: smart match operator is called in array or list context?   Does 
: 
: $_ ~~ $x 
: 
: then return the result of $x($_)?  I would expect that it does. After all,
: in Perl 5, the expression 
: 
:    $string =~ /(a+)(b+)/ 
: 
: returns a list of captured substrings in list context

If we apply the outer context to the right argument in the case of
/.../ (and I don't see why we shouldn't), then we could conceivably
do the same for $x($_) as well.  But in that case, why wouldn't you
just call $x($leftarg) yourself?

Larry