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Trying to smartmatch against S/// gives a compile time warning:
'Smartmatch with S/// can never succeed because the string it returns will
fail to match' [...]
First, that warning is inaccurate, because if S/// doesn't match the string,
it'll return the original string, which will smartmatch as True.
Also, the second part of the error is misleading:
[...] 'You can use given instead of ~~.'
It's perfectly understandable if a new Perl 6 programmer will take that to mean
"change ~~ to `given`". And if they do so, they'll get another confusing (to a
beginner) error, since there's no .match method in their code:
Method 'match' not found for invocant of class 'Any'
Thus, I propose the error message to be changed to the following:
'Smartmatch with S/// is not useful. You can use given instead: S/// given
$foo'
