April 26, 2014
1:45 p.m.
On 4/26/2014 11:07 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
However, it's been mentioned that *if* we're going to have a case statement, it would be nice to give it "pattern matching" abilities such as the globbing of sh's 'case' or Haskell's signature matching. That power might be enough to get some people to swing over to supporting a syntax addition, it seems.
In my view, we should only add new syntax if it add substantial expressives -- making it easy to say something that is difficult now -- and not just be an alternative to if-elif-else. So I am one of 'some people'. -- Terry Jan Reedy