in reply to Re^2: fall through switch/case in perl
in thread fall through switch/case in perl

That's because it doesn't test and retest conditions like the cascades do, it just computes a goto target.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: fall through switch/case in perl
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 07, 2004 at 03:25 UTC

    I know that! And that's why it's a better conversion of the c switch statement.

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