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From:
Matt S Trout
Date:
April 30, 2009 15:51
Subject:
Re: feature 'switch' as an expression?
Message ID:
20090430225109.GA17537@agaton.scsys.co.uk
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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.

Yes please :)

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