On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Rhodri James wrote:
On 08/07/2020 11:05, Federico Salerno wrote:What I don't like is the use of _ as catch-all, which is different and not interdependent with its use as throwaway.Any name used as a pattern is a catch-all. The only difference between "case dummy:" and "case _:" is that "_" doesn't bind to the thing being matched, but "dummy" does bind to it.
Does "_" really deserve that special treatment ? If you don't want to bind to it, you can just use some other dummy, same way you don't use "case print:" if you don want to bind that. /Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KGCQDEFXKOPKPXFF7F6LYZKYFCHGVW5X/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/