Hi there, fellow monks!

If a committer is reading this, I would like to submit a grant not for myself for for Switch.pm author or any other volunteer to add given/when to Switch.pm

It's ironic that such a widely used module (Switch.pm) actually recommended for people to migrate to given/when and now Perl core decided to deprecate starting in 5.38

Adding a simplified, mostly compatible given/when in Switch.pm would save a lot of people a lot of trouble. I can suspect that most people just used it as a fancy if/elsif/else and did not use a lot of the smart matching capabilities, although I could be wrong. In any case, I think that in TIMTOWTDI tradition, we should add given/when to Switch.pm and allow most people to simply replace use feature 'switch' by use Switch

I am confident a committer will pick up this thread and endorse this proposal in my TPF Grant application, so I will just link this tread ;-)

TIA
Alex

In reply to Endorsement from committer to submit TPF Grant Application to add given/when to Switch.pm by ait

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