Why was the Switch module deprecated in Perl 5.12?
I know that a switch/case be made with elsif, but I don’t like that very much.
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Why was the Switch module deprecated in Perl 5.12?
I know that a switch/case be made with elsif, but I don’t like that very much.
Perl 5.10 introduced a real switch called given-when
The old Switch used source filtering and had other limitations.