New syntax for blocks

[Carl Banks]

On Nov 11, 4:12 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:52:45 -0800, Carl Banks wrote:
> >> This is where a helper function is good. You want a dispatcher:
>
> > No I really don't.  I want to be able to see the action performed
> > adjacent to the test, and not have to scroll up to down ten pages to
> > find whatever function it dispatched to.
>
> Then re-write the dispatcher to return a tuple (match_object,
> method_to_call) and then call them there at the spot.

Well I don't just want to call a method, so I can't take that advice.
Some actions will do more than just to call a method.  And I don't
want to scroll up or down ten screens to see what the actions
associated with the regexp are.   A dispatcher is out.

Carl Banks