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| DATE | 2004-11-20 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP
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Subject: Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP
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Contrarian wrote:
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> On another forum, one person laments that he/she started
>to learn Perl and not PHP. I suspect that he/she picked the
>right language, but I know really nothing about PHP.
>
> The immediate context was the (current) lack of a
>case/switch construct in Perl... about which I never understood
>why it is such a big deal.
>
>
That's my least favorite Perl feature. They give you this as a
consolation prize:
for($var){
/foo/ and do { stuff; last };
/bar/ and do { barstuff; last };
/bat/ and do { batstuff; last };
/baz/ and do { bazstuff; last };
do { defaultstuff; last };
}
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