On 31/10/20 7:22 am, Mark Shannon wrote:
On 30/10/2020 4:09 pm, Brandt Bucher wrote:Anyone who reduces pattern matching to "a fancy switch statement" probably isn't the right person to be discussing its semantics and usefulness with.Pattern matching is a fancy switch statement, if you define "fancy" appropriately ;)
I think Brandt's point is that it sounded as though you were making a derogatory remark about the statement option, and that people are likely to stop listening to someone who does that kind of thing.
OOI, what is the reasoning for choosing a statement, not an expression?
Which is a *much* better way to say what I think you were trying to say. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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/RDGU4WSVWVSW7GD3SDAA6W7U6ZXKEZ4E/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/