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6596d39b 2 Release of version 2.07 of Switch
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6NAME
7 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
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9DESCRIPTION
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11 Switch.pm provides the syntax and semantics for an explicit case
12 mechanism for Perl. The syntax is minimal, introducing only the
13 keywords C<switch> and C<case> and conforming to the general pattern
14 of existing Perl control structures. The semantics are particularly
15 rich, allowing any one (or more) of nearly 30 forms of matching to
16 be used when comparing a switch value with its various cases.
17
18AUTHOR
19 Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)
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21COPYRIGHT
55a1c97c 22 Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
23 This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
24 and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
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6596d39b 29CHANGES IN VERSION 2.07
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6596d39b 32 - Corified tests
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6596d39b 34 - Updated "Perl6" syntax to reflect current design
35 (as far as possible -- can't eliminate need to parenthesize
36 variables, since they're ambiguous in Perl 5)
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41AVAILABILITY
42
43Switch has been uploaded to the CPAN
44and is also available from:
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46 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Switch.tar.gz
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