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Thanks for the reference. I quickly skimmed it, and as far as I can tell the only thing it offers compared to a traditional switch/case statement, is the evalua

by trezor 17y ago

Thanks for the reference. I quickly skimmed it, and as far as I can tell the only thing it offers compared to a traditional switch/case statement, is the evaluation of expressions, as opposed to just accepting constants. I can see the rationale behind using a different name for the construct, but I still think it would have made more sense to stick to switch/case.

draegtun 17y ago
Larry Wall also changed it to given/when partly for linguistic reasons. See here for his full explanation: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A04.html http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A04.html (see RFC 022).