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| author | chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org> | 2010-04-19 19:54:00 -0400 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-04-19 19:54:00 -0400 |
| commit | e36877c8ad3e01c9da902459d29cc22046a60e16 (patch) | |
| tree | fbd73bee40c9e419eeefb9361ac33b06604b53fb | |
| parent | 5b2081f5902f3987600de2bbbd173cbc06b5ac53 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e36877c8ad3e01c9da902459d29cc22046a60e16.tar.gz | |
Replace mention of Switch.pm with given/when
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlintro.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlintro.pod b/pod/perlintro.pod index 2f5f85eef2..c47274bc64 100644 --- a/pod/perlintro.pod +++ b/pod/perlintro.pod @@ -307,10 +307,9 @@ running the program. Using C<strict> is highly recommended. =head2 Conditional and looping constructs -Perl has most of the usual conditional and looping constructs except for -case/switch (but if you really want it, there is a Switch module in Perl -5.8 and newer, and on CPAN. See the section on modules, below, for more -information about modules and CPAN). +Perl has most of the usual conditional and looping constructs. As of Perl +5.10, it even has a case/switch statement (spelled C<given>/C<when>). See +L<perlsyn/"Switch statements"> for more details. The conditions can be any Perl expression. See the list of operators in the next section for information on comparison and boolean logic operators, |