I'm coming from Tcl-world ...
brueckd at tbye.com
brueckd at tbye.com
Fri Aug 2 13:32:33 EDT 2002
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
> >>2.) A 'switch'-thing: like a big if-elif-elif-elif-...-else but
> >>which evaluates its expression only once ... and then does all the
> >>comparisons.
> >
> >
> > PEP 275 proposes to include such a thing. You are encouraged to
> > comment on the PEP, either in this group, or by contacting the PEP
> > author:
> >
> > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0275.html
> >
>
> This seems to me to just be syntactic sugar and thus unneeded.
[snip]
Yeah, but being syntactic sugar doesn't necessarily make something a bad
idea. That's like saying you don't need for-loops since we have
while-loops. Heck, since we have operator.mul we don't need '*' anymore.
;-)
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