switch/case (was Re: Want, wrapper subs and context preservation)

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:49:37AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>   switch ([want]) {
>       case 'LIST'     { @ret = &wrapped }
>       case 'SCALAR'   { $ret = &wrapped }
>       else            { &wrapped }
>   }

cases have elses?  If so, why use a new word rather than hijacking
"if" to do the right thing inside of a switch block?  Perl is already
super context-sensitive anyway.

And do switches have elses? (meaning none of the cases were satisfied)

-Scott
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