[Python-3000] Switch/Case statement PEP (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Dec 3 00:17:40 CET 2006

Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:

Thomas Dixon wrote: > I hope I explained myself well enough, and that I haven't taken up too > much of your time.

As you know from reading the PEP, there are some deep unsolved controversies regarding the design of the switch statement, which your suggestion does not address. Syntactical issues such as how the keywords should be named are a minor issue compared to this. Until those issues are resolved, the PEP is likely to remain on hold, and any suggestions as to naming and syntax will likely be regarded as a distraction to the main issue.

After reading Thomas' post and Talin's response, I'm going to have to agree with Talin; syntax options are moot until we can decide what is acceptable in the case EXPR.

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