FW: Switch statements again

[David K. Trudgett]

On Wednesday 2003-01-15 at 22:49:10 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     David> Python should get a case/switch statement, ...
> 
> A fair amount of thought has been put into this topic.  Have a look at PEP
> 275:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0275.html

That's interesting. I didn't know about that. What's Guido's take on
it? (Since he seems to be the "Python Dictator".)

Personally, I would go with the syntax change. Or maybe we should all
switch to Lisp and write our own macros to do the job, eh??? :-)))
Speaking of which, if it weren't OT, I'd be asking how Lisp does a
switch statement...


> 
> and see if you can help advance it.  There's even a patch which implements
> some portion of the PEP.

Unfortunately, I don't have any experience in language design, so I'd
just be getting in the way. Besides, there's always the time excuse
that everyone uses... :-)

Thanks for the pointer.

David Trudgett