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Postings from February 2005
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:51:23AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > FWIW I have far encountered too many problems with Switch, esp in combination > with dor, to be daring enough to rely on it. I just don't use it anymore. > > > > [Prerequisites on this task being either understanding and time, or just > > > a lot of time] > > > > I would fall into the requiring "a lot of time" category. > > And I think that next to "time" and "understanding", one certainly needs > "motivation", something completely absent on this side of the keyboard for > that module. If it's the source filter aspect that deters you, note that perltodo says: =head2 switch ops The old perltodo notes "Although we have C<Switch.pm> in core, Larry points to the dormant C<nswitch> and C<cswitch> ops in F<pp.c>; using these opcodes would be much faster."Thread Previous