Generally, I don't think much of switch statements as they appear in C/C++/Java. Those sorts of things can only switch on trivial data (i.e. ints, chars, strings in C#) and go against the OO grain of the language: They encourage people to store special "behavioral flags" inside objects to modify their behavior with switches, rather than using proper OO inheritance/subclassing. Furthermore, they don't really provide much of a syntactic advantage over chained elifs, or using a delegate dict (which has the advantage of being programmatically modifiable. Both of those are far more flexible and powerful. Unless we're going all the way to F#/Haskell/Scala style 'match' statements (which are completely awesome), there really isn't much point in them. -Haoyi On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Chris Rebert <pyideas@rebertia.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Lucas Malor <rwwfjchuws@snkmail.com> wrote:
Hello all. I read PEP 275 but I don't like the syntax of examples.
I doubt PEP 275 or PEP 3103 were rejected based just on syntax grounds.
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