Another stab at a "switch/case" construct (for Python 3000):

[Jeff Shannon]

Ken Peek wrote:

>   A clause can be forced to 'fall through' with the use of a
>   'continue' statement, which jumps to the first statement in the
>   next match clause (because 'falling through' IS useful
>   sometimes.)

I don't think I like this re-use of the 'continue' keyword -- it seems to me
that the sense, in this context, is considerably different than the sense of
its use in a loop.  In a loop, it means "start over from the top", where
here, it means "run this one next bit too, but not anything else".

I'm not sure that falling through is a necessary idiom to accommodate.  If
the code that should be used for more than one case is significant enough to
be worth adding a 'continue' to get to, then it most likely is a good
candidate for extraction as a separate function that can be painlessly
called from both cases.

(My $0.02, anyhow.)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International