On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:34:46PM +0300, raptor wrote:
> if (cond)
> { }
> else {}
> otherwise {}
>
>
> i.e.
> if cond == 1 then 'then-block'
> if cond == 0 then 'else-block'
> if cond == -1 then 'otherwise-block'
Sounds like you need a switch, yes. The cases where "cond" will
be 1, 0 and -1 is fairly rare in Perl and is pretty much limited
to cmp and <=>.
I'm curious to see examples of existing code which otherwise would
improve, but it really doesn't seem like there's much improvement
either way and you severely complicate the meaning of C<if( cond )>,
since it has to now fail on -1 if C<otherwise> exists.
PS -1 is true, just to make sure that's clear.
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