I'm coming from Tcl-world ...

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> writes:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> > [PEP 275]
> 
> This seems to me to just be syntactic sugar and thus unneeded.
> Switch/Case like constructs are trivially, and more richly,
> implemented using dictionaries to associate a switch value with a
> particular behavior or result.

Not really.  Something like:

int a, b, c

switch (v) {
    case 1:
        a = 0
        break;
    case 1:
        return b;
    case 1:
        c += 1
        break;
}

would be tedious to do using dictionaries (i.e. where the different
cases need access to different bits of the local environment).

Cheers,
M.

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