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| Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:16:21 +1000 |
| Subject | Re: Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2014 12:07 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> This has a slight oddity of parsing (in that an expression can >> normally have a comparison in it); if you really want to use the >> result of a comparison inside a case block, you'd have to parenthesize >> it. But it's easy enough to explain to a human. > > This syntax is almost identical to the if/elif/else syntax, though, no? Like I said, it's a short-hand for an if/elif tree, nothing more. Most of the proposals have effectively been that anyway. There are differences, though; the case target gets evaluated only once, for instance. I'm not pushing strongly for its addition to the language. ChrisA
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Re: Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-07 09:16 +1000
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