Re: Re: Re: There's a level in Hell reserved for _______

There's also a special place in heaven for those who understand why it makes sense for Perl6 to have given/when.

jdporter
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given/when in Perl 6 by logan (Curate) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:30 UTC
OK, I'll bite. What's a given/when and why is it important? -Logan "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more."	[reply]
Re: given/when in Perl 6 by Elian (Parson) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:33 UTC
given/when is a switch on steroids. Rather than C's rather anemic "check against an integer value", it provides full smart matching semantics, very much like Damian's Switch module, on which it's based.	[reply]