pattern matching in python

[Mike Fletcher]

Curse you!  My code uses the arglist gimmick all over the place, especially
in the parse-tree processors.  Once again we, the people, are marginalised
by the dictator perched on his natty red sofa in the palace.  Some day, mark
my words, the people of the automatically-unpacking tuple arguments shall
rise up and overthrow this tyrannical government!

My people, rally to me!  They cannot kill us all!  They dictators cannot
hold on to power forever!  They would not dare to strike us down if we
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at home.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 3:19 AM
To: Quinn Dunkan; python-list at python.org
Subject: RE: pattern matching in python
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Yup.  Guido has mentioned that he might drop the arglist gimmick in P3K,
though, as it's conspicuous by absence in real Python programs.  Or maybe I
made that up!  It's hard to tell.
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