[Python-Dev] An obscene computed goto bytecode hack for "switch" :)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:23 AM 6/18/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>I'm not in favor of abusing this to generate a computed goto, and I
>don't see a need for that -- if we decide to add that (either as
>syntax or as an automatic optimization) I see no problem adding a new
>bytecode.

Me either -- I suggest simply adding a JUMP_TOP -- but I wanted to point 
out that people wouldn't need to add a new opcode in order to experiment 
with possible "switch" syntaxes.