Perl 6 has a new switch statement called "given."
In Perl 5 there was no switch statement because
the designer of Perl wanted to create the right statement.
The Perl 6 is denoted by given and the case is denoted by when.
There is even syntax for exceptions.

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/4

A typical Perl 6 "Switch" statement would be:
given statement {
when condition { }
when condition { }

}

A typical Perl 6 Exception would be

catch exception {
when { }

}


You can switch hashes or arrays objects or lists or regular expressions or and booleans and more.

"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b3h655$1ng7$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Perl 6 has a new switch statement called "given."
> In Perl 5 there was no switch statement because
> the designer of Perl wanted to create the right statement.
> The Perl 6 is denoted by given and the case is denoted by when.
> There is even syntax for exceptions.
>
> http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/4
>
> A typical Perl 6 "Switch" statement would be:
> given statement {
> when condition { }
> when condition { }
>
> }
>
> A typical Perl 6 Exception would be
>
> catch exception {
> when { }
>
> }
>
>
> You can switch hashes or arrays objects or lists or regular expressions or
and
> booleans and more.
>

I don't know if this was a feature request for D or not, but here's my 2c.

I think these longer forms of switch/catch statements would break C's conciseness which D tries to uphold.  D already has these statements so I don't see the reasoning behind these.

I don't see the point of having a boolean in a switch statement when it can just as easily be done with if/else.  Although it may be an idea if switch statements could take in objects and return some result, parhaps by overloading the equals operator.