Something that helps me reason about this is thinking of how regular
expressions match against strings, to remember that which goes on which
side is important...
> "this has a Q in it" ~~ / 'Q' / # of course this works
｢Q｣
> / 'Q' / ~~ "this has a Q in it" # of course this breaks
Regex object coerced to string ...
> say do given "this has a Q in it" { when / 'Q' / {"has a Q"}; default
{"no match"}}
has a Q
> say do given / 'Q' / { when "this has a Q in it" {"has a Q"}; default
{"no match"}}
Regex object coerced to string ...
I did have a place in the earlier discussion. I eventually realized that if
I thought of junctions as analogous to regular expressions, then it was
easier to remember which side of the smartmatch or given/when to put it.
-y
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 3:31 PM Joseph Brenner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ... we'd need to go
> > through detailed, calm, measured discussion if we're to minimize
> > the pain it seems we'll inevitably endure pain to dig ourselves out
> > of the hole we'd be in.
>
> Yes, this could be a bad one.
>
