[Python-Dev] Switch statement (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jun 13 02:22:13 CEST 2006

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Greg> A way out of this would be to define the semantics so that the Greg> expression values are allowed to be cached, and the order of Greg> evaluation and testing is undefined. So the first time through, Greg> the values could all be put in a dict, to be looked up thereafter.

And if those expressions' values would change if evaluated after further execution?

Then you deserve what you get for not reading the docs.

-- Greg

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