[Python-Dev] More Switch: Explicit freezing (original) (raw)
Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Jul 2 07:46:57 CEST 2006
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Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
Here's another stab at the "explicit freezing" school of thought on the switch semantics. The idea is to borrow the freeze protocol and apply it to functions.
-1 . Freezing was previously questionably useful in the realm of general data structures. Using switch/case as a use-case for this functionality, I think, is a non-starter.
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