Revision history for Perl extension Switch.

0.01 Wed Dec 15 05:58:01 1999

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18

2.00 Mon Jan 8 17:12:20 2001

• Complete revamp (including syntactic and semantic changes) in line with proposed Perl 6 semantics.

2.01 Tue Jan 9 07:19:02 2001

• Fixed infinite loop problem under 5.6.0 caused by change in goto semantics between 5.00503 and 5.6.0 (thanks Scott!)

2.02 Thu Apr 26 12:01:06 2001

• Fixed unwarranted whitespace squeezing before quotelikes (thanks Ray)
• Fixed pernicious bug that cause switch to fail to recognize certain complex switch values

2.03 Tue May 15 09:34:11 2001

• Fixed bug in 'fallthrough' specifications.
• Silenced gratuitous warnings for undefined values as switch or case values

2.04 Mon Jul 30 13:17:35 2001

• Suppressed 'undef value' warning under -w (thanks Michael)
• Added support for Perl 6 given..when syntax

2.05 Mon Sep 3 08:13:25 2001

• Changed licence for inclusion in core distribution
• Added new test file for non-fallthrough and nested switches

2.06 Wed Nov 14 16:18:54 2001

• Fixed parsing of ternary operators in Switch'ed source code (at the expense of no longer correctly parsing ?...? regexes) (thanks Mark)
• Fixed the parsing of embedded POD (thanks Brent)
• Fixed bug encountered when -s or -m file test used (thanks Jochen)

2.07 Wed May 15 15:19:28 2002

• Corified tests
• Updated "Perl6" syntax to reflect current design (as far as possible -- can't eliminate need to parenthesize variables, since they're ambiguous in Perl 5)

2.09 Wed Jun 12 22:13:30 2002

• Removed spurious debugging statement

2.10 Mon Dec 29 2003

• Introduce the "default" keyword for the Perl 6 syntax
• Raise the limitation on source file length to 1 million characters

2.11 Wed Nov 22 2006

• Fix documentation issues
• Fix installation directory for perls >= 5.7.3 (Slaven Rezic)

2.12 Mon Dec 11 2006

• Fix bug in parsing POD at end of document (Valentin Guignon)

2.13 Sun Feb 25 2007

• Fix bug in parsing division statements (Wolfgang Laun)

2.14 Mon Dec 29 2008

• Make Switch.pm skip POD like perl does Patch provided by Daniel Klein <danielklein--airpost.net> (bleadperl commit 39bcdda02ea582e7bdf8b0cf2e7186e89c6baea9)
• Fix line numbering issues with POD filtered by Switch.pm Patch provided by Daniel Klein <danielklein--airpost.net> (bleadperl commit 6a9befb105d93024902eb178dab77655333f1829)
• Switch.pm doesn't appear to support plain arrays and hashes in case(). (bleadperl commit cd3d9d47255d3080961ba7b58c9a145c7b45b905)
• Let us direct Switch questions to P5P. (bleadperl commit b62fb10ea98565ce5572416500e1e3517cb17d33)
• POD nits from Frank Wiegand <frank.wiegand@gmail.com> (bleadperl commit 3b46207fed7bf69caa32c27c04bd239cfb64cb53)

2.15 Tue Oct 20 2009

• Deprecate shipping Switch.pm in the core distribution. (Nicholas Clark)

2.16 Fri Oct 23 2009

• For Perl 5.11+, install into 'site', not 'perl'