[HRPM] Perl switch statement

[Jeff Duffy]

Greetings;

 For those who might need it (I imagine that includes everyone), Damian 
'The-Perl-community-pays-me-to-hack" Conway has released Switch-2.01,
a very nifty and very Perl implementation of the switch/case statement 
found in many other languages.

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Switch

 Highlights include:

- 18 different ways (!) to match a case statement, including lmatching 
against iteral strings, regular expressions, hash key or value 
existence (my favorite), subroutine output, and many more.

- Way flexible expression cascading (even forced fallthrough).

 This is a very nice way to clean up some of that code you have with 
fourteen sequential elsif statements :)

 I'd be happy to cover this at a meeting, too.

Jeff

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