Re: Random items (old p5p issues)

[Nathan Torkington]

Piers Cawley writes:
> >     Iterators
> Doable in perl5 already.
> >     Reduce          (e.g. $x = reduce { sum } @list;
> Doable in perl5
> >     Case/Switch
> Why? And Damian's already proved it can be done.

Perl's goal is to make easy things easy.  I think case/switch is
something that belongs in the core, not in a module.  Just because
something can be done now doesn't mean it doesn't deserve tighter
integration in the next version of Perl, or that it can't be done
better.

Nat