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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 21 01:54:45 CEST 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

Offering arbitrary expressions whose meaning can vary at runtime would kill any potential speedup (the ultimate purpose for having a switch statement)

I don't agree that speedup is the ultimate purpose of a switch statement. There's also the matter of providing a construct that expresses the high-level intent of the code more clearly than an if-else chain. I think both of these are equally important.

-- Greg

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