At 11:19 AM 6/3/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
>[ name withheld to protect the innocent.]
>[..]
>> From reading your response, below, I take it that you don't think very
>> highly of the SWITCH command? Can you elaborate just a little for me as
>> to why? You see, I've dabbled in other languages (most notably VB and
>> BASH shell scripting) and I've gotten quite used to having a CASE or
>> SWITCH type statement at my disposal, and, to be honest, I was surprised
>> that I didn't have it in Perl. I guess having "grown up" using it, I
>> didn't know why I shouldn't...
>[..]
>
>I think almost everyone who comes to perl has that 'crisis of faith'
>moment when they review
>
> perldoc -q switch
>
>and wonder - ok, so why no switch/case statement, because, well I
>have always done it that way....
For those who haven't seen it,
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Switch
is officially blessed as a Good Way To Do It. And it approaches the
mind-bending implementation planned for Perl 6.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies Boston Perl Classes in July:
http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://stemsystems.com/class/
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