On 11/2/20 1:52 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 11/2/2020 1:42 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> But we feel that `case x, x` can easily be misunderstood as "a tuple of two equal values"
>
> So what _is_ the syntax for "a tuple of two equal values" ?
>
> case x, ?x: # comes to mind (not that it is in the PEP :))
Using a guard statement:
case x, y if x == y
This example made me realise that I need to add test cases for "case x, ==x:" and "case x, is x:" to PEP 642's reference implementation (and text to the PEP pointing out that explicit constraints can help address the pattern back-reference problem).
Cheers,
Nick.