"Damian's Switch.pm relies on source filtering, which means that unless it can parse Perl perfectly (ha ha!), you'll get bugs in portions of code that having nothing to do with switches just because you included use Switch; in your code. So it shouldn't be used in any practical code."

This is true. I naively tried to use Switch once upon a time, because I like that construct, in some software that I was writing and it seriously broke my code. I had obscure error messages that were nearly impossible to debug until I realized that Switch was the culprit.

I agree. Don't use Switch unless you want to court devious Perl bugs.

metadoktor

"The doktor is in."

In reply to Not Use Switch - Re: Re^6: No braces by metadoktor
in thread No braces by jacques

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.