Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'else:': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'syntax': 0.04; 'identifier': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; '":"': 0.16; '::=': 0.16; '["else"': 0.16; 'personally,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Case': 0.16; 'all.': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'proposed': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'solutions.': 0.26; 'switch': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'statement': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'getting': 0.31; 'anybody': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'chance': 0.65; 'world': 0.66; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'satisfied': 0.81; 'proposal:': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84; 'subject:Proposal': 0.91; 'lucas': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:03:40 +0100 References: <12008-1396450399-453900@sneakemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-192-106.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <12008-1396450399-453900@sneakemail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140403-1, 03/04/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1396566240 news.xs4all.nl 2975 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49068 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69621 On 02/04/2014 15:53, Lucas Malor wrote: > Hi all. I would proposeto you all a switch-case syntax for Python. I already read PEP 3103 and I'm not completely satisfied by any of the proposed solutions. This is my proposal: > > switch_stmt ::= "switch" identifier "case" expression_list ":" suite > ("case" expression_list ":" suite)* > ["else" ":" suite] > > or, more simply: > > > > switch x case var1: > .... > case var2: > ... > case var3: > ... > else: > ... > Please don't take this personally, but there's more chance of me being the first ever World President than of anybody getting a switch/case statement past the BDFL. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com