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There's also a special place in heaven for those who understand why it makes sense for Perl6 to have given/when.

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given/when in Perl 6
by logan (Curate) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:30 UTC
    OK, I'll bite. What's a given/when and why is it important?

    -Logan
    "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more."

      given/when is a switch on steroids. Rather than C's rather anemic "check against an integer value", it provides full smart matching semantics, very much like Damian's Switch module, on which it's based.