Fwd: [Tutor] using exceptions to implement case/switch?

[Max Noel]

(sigh... Forgot to click "reply to all". It'd be more practical if that 
list set a reply-to header IMO...)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr>
> Date: October 15, 2004 21:42:37 BST
> To: Bill Mill <bill.mill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] using exceptions to implement case/switch?
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 21:36, Bill Mill wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I think you've misunderstood the example; pardon me if I've
>> misunderstood you in turn, but Kent's dispatcher will run the
>> functions in the current namespace. No new processes or namespaces
>> will be created, making your lambda method redundant.
>>
>> Peace
>> Bill Mill
>> bill.mill at gmail.com
>
> 	I think he meant scope, not namespace. However IIRC lambda functions 
> have their own scope, like normal functions (not 100% sure of that, I 
> never use lambdas), thus the method is redundant either way.
>
> -- Wild_Cat
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>
>
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