On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 14:38:42 -0500 , Hal Wigoda wrote: > so why don't they get rid of it?
I'm not sure which "it" you're referring to: Switch.pm or given/when. For better or worse, Perl has a strong culture of backwards compatibility. Perl is one of the few languages where you can use code written 10-20 years ago on a new version with few difficulties. As for given/when, there are some threads on the perl5-porters mailing list (where perl development is discussed) about changing given/when to something that is less ambiguous and less "clever". As for Switch.pm, it has been removed from perl core. -- Chris Nehren | Coder, Sysadmin, Masochist Shadowcat Systems Ltd. | http://shadowcat.co.uk/
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