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<p>Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but <em>given</em> is a topicalizer, aliasing a lexically scoped $_ to a scalar's value which <em>when</em> operates on. The <em>if/elsif</em> construct doesn't create topics. Given this difference in functionality, how is <em>given/when</em> syntactic sugar for <em>if/elsif</em>?</p>
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