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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 30, 2009 02:57
Subject:
Re: feature 'switch' as an expression?
Message ID:
20090430095744.GE71149@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:49:26AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:

> It's even documented in perlop.  Rather unfortunately (IMHO), the
> following wonderful line has been removed from that document:
> 
>   This is not necessarily guaranteed to contribute to the readability of
>   your program.

That's not exactly a recent change:

commit 19799a22062ef658e4ac543ea06fa9193323512a
Author: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date:   Mon May 24 07:24:11 1999 +0000

    major pod update from Tom Christiansen
    
    p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3460

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/d92eb7b0e84a41728b3fbb642691f159dbe28882..19799a22062ef658e4ac543ea06fa9193323512a:/pod/perlop.pod

Perhaps we should put it back.

Nicholas Clark
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