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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'

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