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| DATE | 2004-11-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP
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> >
> >And so are cases. Cases are anal retenssive uneeded syntaxes in any
> >language.
> >
> >
> Unneeded?
> Sure.
glab we agree otherwise I'd need to point the programmer to elseif
> I suppose hashtables are unneeded, too. That doesn't make them
> extremely useful.
That's an added functionality. cases provide no additional functionality, only
additional syntax cruft to debug.
>
> I don't know why you think cases are anal retentive.
> I use them all the time, even in Perl, and I wish it were easier to do so.
It is and I do. See labels and curly braces.
Ruben
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