Unpacking extension (Re: A small inconsistency in syntax?)

[Rainer Deyke]

"Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
news:3BDF7571.5D8CB310 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz...
>    case foo:
>      Nothing():
>        print "We got nada"
>      Pair(Furble(p, q), Furble(r, s)):
>        print "We got a pair of furbles"
>      Pair(a, b):
>        print "We got a pair of something else"
>      x:
>        print "We got something else"

Ambiguous to the point of uselessness.

a, b = 7, 13
case foo:
  Pair(a, b):
    print 'Got Pair(7, 13)'
  Pair(a, b):
    print 'Got Pair(%s, %s)' % (a, b)
  Pair(a, b):
    print 'Got object of class %s' % Pair



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