Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[Bart Lateur]

On 24 Aug 2000 15:40:00 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>Perl currently only has C<eq> and C<cmp> operators which work case-sensitively.
>It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents.

Next you'll want case)insensitive hashes! Er... actually, that sounds
rather useful, even more than your ideas, which can be easily emulated.

Suppose you want to keep the case on the hash keys, because you
enumerate them. But you still want to find hash entries in a case
insensitive manner...

-- 
        Bart.