match:...ple::XS(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

match::simple::XS — bestie, it's the XS backend for match::simple 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use match::simple;

like... that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen 👑 the actual module you talk to, the one with the user-facing energy, is match::simple. this one is just the backend doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. main character? no. but essential? absolutely.

Nothing to see here; move along. 🎀 fr fr there is genuinely nothing else here, bestie, i'm not gatekeeping anything.

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• match::simple. — go there, that's where the actual party is 🫶

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>. 👑 iconic behavior

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🌈 THANKS 🌈

huge shoutout to alh, bulk88, rafl, leont, and ilmari on the #xs IRC channel — they helped translate a whole bunch of ideas from Perl to XS and honestly? slay 💜

also the XS source code for Scalar::Util was super useful. not me reading other people's code for inspiration 😭 it ate tho

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2014, 2022 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 💅 periodt

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💀 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES 💀

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

ngl bestie that one's ALL CAPS for a reason — no promises, no guarantees, you get what you get 🙈💀

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perl v5.42.3 · 2026-08-19 — that's the version and date this lil page came from, so if your perl is giving something different, that's why 💖 k bye, go read match::simple 🦋✨