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
Joe Gottman
