[portland] Dictionary As Switch Statement

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, kirby urner wrote:

> Actually, they don't require the parentheses except to trigger them as
> "callables" (a Pythonic jargon word, "iterables" being another favorite --
> dictionaries and lists are both iterables, as are generator expressions).

   Thank you, Kirby. That clarifies the situation.

Rich

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