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Why was the Switch module deprecated in Perl 5.12?
I know that a switch/case be made with elsif, but I don't like that very much.
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Perl does not support the use of switch statements. A switch statement allows a variable to be tested against a set list of values. In Perl, the equivalent of the switch statement is the given-when syntax.
Advertisements. A switch statement allows a variable to be tested for equality against a list of values. Each value is called a case, and the variable being switched on is checked for each switch case.
Perl 5.10 introduced a real switch called given-when
The old Switch used source filtering and had other limitations.
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