[Python-Dev] PEP 3103: A Switch/Case Statement (original) (raw)

Talin talin at acm.org
Wed Jun 28 19:25:27 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Let's just drop the switchable subroutine proposal. It's not viable.

Perhaps not - but at the same time, when discussing new language features, let's not just limit ourselves to what other languages have done already.

Forget subroutines for a moment - the main point of the thread was the idea that the dispatch table was built explicitly rather than automatically - that instead of arguing over first-use vs. function-definition, we let the user decide. I'm sure that my specific proposal isn't the only way that this could be done.

-- Talin

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