conjunction

You can cause "conjunction" to use the connectives of other languages, by calling the appropriate subroutine:

    Lingua::Conjunction->lang('en');   # use 'and'
    Lingua::Conjunction->lang('es');   # use 'y'
    Lingua::Conjunction->lang();        # Tries to determine your language, otherwise falls back to 'en'

Supported languages in this version are Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swahili.

You can also set connectives individually:

    Lingua::Conjunction->separator("...");
    Lingua::Conjunction->separator_phrase("--");
    Lingua::Conjunction->connector_type("or");

    # emits "Jack... Jill... or Spot"
    $name_list = conjunction('Jack', 'Jill', 'Spot');

separator

    Lingua::Conjunction->separator(',');

Returns the previous value.

separator_phrase

    Lingua::Conjunction->separator_phrase(';');

The "separator_phrase" is used whenever the separator already appears in an item of the list. For example:

    # emits "Doe, a deer; Ray; and Me"
    $name_list = conjunction('Doe, a deer', 'Ray', 'Me');

Returns the previous value;

penultimate

You may use the "penultimate" routine to disable the separator after the next to last item. In English, The Oxford Comma is a highly debated issue.

    # emits "Jack, Jill and Spot"
    Lingua::Conjunction->penultimate(0);
    $name_list = conjunction('Jack', 'Jill', 'Spot');

The original author was told that the penultimate comma is not standard for some languages, such as Norwegian. Hence the defaults set in the %languages.

    Lingua::Conjunction->penultimate(0);

Returns the previous value.

connector_type

    Lingua::Conjunction->connector_type('and');

connector

    Lingua::Conjunction->connector(SCALAR)

Returns the previous value.

lang

    Lingua::Conjunction->lang('de');    # Changes the language to German