On 02.08.23 18:30, Paul Moore wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 15:24, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp <mailto:turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>> wrote:
Partly because that's where the other discussants are (the network externality is undeniably powerful), and partly (I believe) because effective use of email is a skill that requires effort to acquire. Popular mail clients are designed to be popular, not to make that expertise easy to acquire and exercise. Clunky use of email makes lists much less pleasant for everyone than they could be.
I guess that's sad (I am, after all, a GNU Mailman developer), but it's reality.
Personally, I'm sad because some people whose contributions I enjoy (you being one of them :-)) didn't move to Discourse. But like you say, it's how things are.
Christian - you can make named constants using class attributes (or an enum):
class A: M = "M"
match seq: case A.M, A.M, A.M, A.M, *r: return 4*1000, r
Basically, the "names are treated as variables to assign to" rule doesn't apply to attributes.
I'm not sure how helpful that is (it's not particularly *shorter*) but I think the idea was that most uses of named constants in a match statement would be enums or module attributes. And compromises had to be made.
Cheers, Paul
Thanks a lot, everybody! I have tried a lot now, using classes which becomes more readable but - funnily - slower! Using the clumsy if-guards felt slow but isn't. Then I generated functions even, with everything as constants, and now the SPM version in fact out-performs the regex slightly! But at last, I found an even faster and correct algorithm by a different approach, which ends now this story :) Going to the Discourse tite, now. Cheers -- Chris -- Christian Tismer-Sperling :^) tismer@stackless.com Software Consulting : http://www.stackless.com/ Strandstraße 37 : https://github.com/PySide 24217 Schönberg : GPG key -> 0xFB7BEE0E phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023