On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:18:07PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You've just convinced me to take else's out of the proposal! ;-)
Glad to be of service! (But I was hoping you'd get rid of case too ;-)
switch ([want]) {
'LIST' { @ret = &wrapped }
'SCALAR' { $ret = &wrapped }
&wrapped
}
switch ($num) {
0 { return 'zero' }
[2,4,6,8] { return 'even' }
[1,3,4,7,9] { return 'odd' }
/[A-F]/i { return 'hex' }
}
etc.
-Scott
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