Bug#580059: ITP: libswitch-perl -- A switch statement for Perl

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:32:48PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> Why not just use feature.pm instead?
> 
> use feature qw(switch);
> given ($foo) {
>                when (1)          { say "\$foo == 1" }
>                when ([2,3])      { say "\$foo == 2 || \$foo == 3" }
>                when (/^a[bc]d$/) { say "\$foo eq 'abd' || \$foo eq 'acd'" }
>                when ($_ > 100)   { say "\$foo > 100" }
>                default           { say "None of the above" }
>            }
> 
> this is part of 5.10.

Please see #580034 for the context of this. It's very likely that this
won't be packaged in the end as it has no users in Debian currently.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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