tools of the trade ( was Re: [Charlotte.PM] find index of arrayelement)

[Dale Lancaster]

That's great to hear on the next release having the switch/case.  I am a 
little concerned about install Bundle::Perl6, I'll need to look at how that 
works.  Thanks for the tip.
dale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William McKee" <william at knowmad.com>
To: "Dale Lancaster" <dale at lancaster.hm>
Cc: <diona at studio12a.com>; <charlotte at pm.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: tools of the trade ( was Re: [Charlotte.PM] find index of 
arrayelement)


> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:00:28PM -0500, Dale Lancaster wrote:
>> I am definitely in favor of a 1500 piece craftsman professional tool set 
>> vs
>> the 20 piece "all you will ever need" screwdriver, pliers, socket set
>> approach.
>
> (grunting sound fx from Home Improvement plays in the background)
>
>
>> I do have one (possibly more if I think about it) pet peeve with
>> Perl and it's that Larry Wall decided that it was not necessary to have a
>> switch/case construct because "there are so many other ways to do the 
>> same
>> thing in Perl".
>
> You're not the only one, and he's changed his mind (or had it changed by
> the community) because it will be part of Perl6. In fact, you can get a
> Perl5 implementation along with lots of other Perl6 goodies by
> downloading Bundle::Perl6 from CPAN.
>
>
> Cheers!
> William
>
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