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OK, I'll bite. What's a given/when and why is it important?

-Logan
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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.
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