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

[Mark-Jason Dominus]

> I'm not concerned about / being mistaken for division, since that
> ambiguity already exists with bare /pat/ matches. 

Yes, but the current ambiguity is resolved from context in a rather
complicated way.  Nevertheless it turns out that Perl does the right
thing in most cases.  You are proposing to change the context, and
it's not clear that the result will be the right thing as often as in
the past.

It may turn out that the new notation really does have exactly the
same ambiguities, but that's not clear to me now.  All I said was that
I would like to see some discussion of it.