Re: RFC 138 (v1) Eliminate =~ operator.

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Collected ideas (mostly not my own):
> 
> EXPR /pattern/
> EXPR m/pattern/
> /pattern/ EXPR
> m(EXPR)/pattern/
> /pattern/->(EXPR)
> EXPR<-/pattern/
> EXPR<=/pattern/
> EXPR ~ /pattern/
> match(/pattern/, EXPR)
> EXPR ? /pattern/

The mythical (and insistent) 'in' operator to rescue?

        $pattern in $expr

        if ($pattern in $expr)    { ... }

        while ($pattern in $expr) { ... }

        for ($pattern in $expr)   { ... } # $_ bound to $&?

(See, I already agilely use the 'yada yada yada operator'!) 

        my @allofthem = $pattern in $expr;

Hmmm...

        $pattern in @expr
        @pattern in $expr
        @pattern in @expr

Should I put down the keyboard now?

> Maybe some or all of those EXPRs should be terms. But every one has one
> problem or another.

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