> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:49:37AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > switch ([want]) {
> > case 'LIST' { @ret = &wrapped }
> > case 'SCALAR' { $ret = &wrapped }
> > else { &wrapped }
> > }
>
> cases have elses?
They're not necessary. The same example could be:
switch ([want]) {
case 'LIST' { @ret = &wrapped }
case 'SCALAR' { $ret = &wrapped }
&wrapped
}
> If so, why use a new word rather than hijacking
> "if" to do the right thing inside of a switch block? Perl is already
> super context-sensitive anyway.
You've just convinced me to take else's out of the proposal! ;-)
> And do switches have elses? (meaning none of the cases were satisfied)
Yes. See the example above :-)
Damian
