[Python-Dev] School IIb? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Jun 28 10:38:27 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

Hear, hear! We already have if/elif, we don't need another way to spell it. The whole point of switch is that it asserts that exactly one case is supposed to match

that's not true for all programming languages that has a switch construct, though; the common trait is that you're dispatching on a single value, not necessarily that there cannot be potentially overlapping case conditions.

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