• Kublai Kahn (17/17) Feb 25 2003 Perl 6 has a new switch statement called "given."
• anderson (11/28) Mar 01 2003 and

Kublai Kahn <Kublai_member pathlink.com> writes:

Perl 6 has a new switch statement called "given."
In Perl 5 there was no switch statement because
the designer of Perl wanted to create the right statement.
The Perl 6 is denoted by given and the case is denoted by when.
There is even syntax for exceptions.

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/4

A typical Perl 6 "Switch" statement would be:
given statement {
when condition { }
when condition { }   

}

A typical Perl 6 Exception would be

catch exception {
when { }

}


You can switch hashes or arrays objects or lists or regular expressions or and
booleans and more. 

"anderson" <anderson badmama.com.au> writes:

"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
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 Perl 6 has a new switch statement called "given."
 In Perl 5 there was no switch statement because
 the designer of Perl wanted to create the right statement.
 The Perl 6 is denoted by given and the case is denoted by when.
 There is even syntax for exceptions.

 http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/4

 A typical Perl 6 "Switch" statement would be:
 given statement {
 when condition { }
 when condition { }

 }

 A typical Perl 6 Exception would be

 catch exception {
 when { }

 }


 You can switch hashes or arrays objects or lists or regular expressions or

and
 booleans and more.

I don't know if this was a feature request for D or not, but here's my 2c.

I think these longer forms of switch/catch statements would break C's
conciseness which D tries to uphold.  D already has these statements so I
don't see the reasoning behind these.

I don't see the point of having a boolean in a switch statement when it can
just as easily be done with if/else.  Although it may be an idea if switch
statements could take in objects and return some result, parhaps by
overloading the equals operator.