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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 05:59:44 +1100
Subject: Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> A dict dispatch table is just awful.

Really? How is that? I've used them, often. Yes, there are times when
I could express something more cleanly with a C-style switch
statement, but other times the dispatch table is fundamentally
cleaner. I shared an example a few posts ago in this thread; care to
elaborate on how it's "just awful"?

ChrisA