in reply to Best option for "switch/case" functionality?
Grab the experimental.pm module from CPAN (or you may already have it if you have a recent version of Perl installed).
Then, at the top of each file add:
use experimental 'switch';
Then continue to use given/when under every version of Perl that supports it...without annoying warnings or meta-warnings.
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