[Python-ideas] Match statement brainstorm

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/25/2016 07:59 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> Leaving aside the spelling quibbles, following "if" I would "see"
>> "matches" as an operator, and want to write
>>
>>      if <thing> matches <matcher>:
>>          pass
>>      elif <thing> matches <matcher>:
>>          pass
>>
>> and I'm back in "if ... elif ... else ..." land.
>
> What if it were like this:
>
> if <thing> ...:
>      matches <matcher>:
>          pass
>      matches <matcher>:
>          pass
>
> with a colon at the end of the first line too?

I would just as soon use the switch/case keywords, with extra matching 
oomph.  It doesn't have to match C(-like) exactly, and would be 
immediately recognizable as to the intent (following tests are against 
the thing in the switch portion).

I think it's okay to put our own Python spin on it.

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~Ethan~