[Python-ideas] Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Skip Montanaro writes:

 > In other languages, the semantics of the switch statement allow the
 > compiler to generate more efficient code.  Instead of testing each
 > branch of the if statement in succession looking for a match, you
 > evaluate the switch expression once, then use it as an index into a
 > jump table of some sort which points directly to the matching case
 > label.

Sure, but Python already has such a jump table: a function-valued
hash.

Don't-even-think-of-mentioning-Ruby-blocks-now-ly y'rs,