Re: RFC 22 (v1) Builtin switch statement

[Damian Conway]

   > Oh, the table thing. The switch statement is useful without learning the
   > complete table so I don't think complexity is a big problem. People can
   > learn what they need and ignore the rest. I agree with you that it might
   > be nice to have an array membership operator (like "in") so that you can
   > write:
   > 
   >   if ($x in [ 1, 2, 3 ]) ...

       if ( grep $x==$_, (1,2,3) ) ...

Be nice if it would short-circuit in a boolean context though!

Damian