- Switch.pm, which was implemented as a source filter, has been deprecated in
Perl 5.10 and was later removed from the core modules in Perl 5.14 or so.
Unfortunately, its replacement, the given/when/default construct, has since
been downgraded to "experimental" status because of problems with the underlying
"smart-match" operator.
Thus, as of Perl 5.22, Perl still has no actually usable "switch"-like construct.
So just use boring, old and ugly "if/elsif/else" constructs instead, which are
compatible with almost any Perl version.
- None of the Perl modules here does anything that would require "AutoLoader".
- "Exporter" can be used to export plain functions into another modules name
space. But the things that were exported here are meant to be called as
methods. In this case, it is neither necessary nor advisable to export those
symbols.
Just export nothing (the POD documentation already said so).
- It is usually the calling script that enables (or does not enable) warnings
globally. When a module says "use warnings;" however, the caller looses control
over what warnings should be enabled in that module.
Tobias Brunner