Advatages of "Switch" was Re: [misterhouse-users] Perl Switch module

[Stuart G. <st...@sm...>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 19:53, Jaco Botha wrote:
>
> use Switch;
>
> switch (state $light) {
>    case 'on' { print_log "It is on" }
> }

Without wanting to start any mass argument, I was wondering what the advantage 
the Switch module has over if...then...elseif...else ?

I remember reading somewhere that Perl didn't have it because Larry couldn't 
think of a valid reasonto include it. (Or was it that he couldn't think of a 
good way to do it .. ?)