Shannon -jj Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 4/20/05, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> My use case for switch is that of a parser switching on tokens.
>>
>> mxTextTools applications would greatly benefit from being able
>> to branch on tokens quickly. Currently, there's only callbacks,
>> dict-to-method branching or long if-elif-elif-...-elif-else.
>
> I think "match" from Ocaml would be a much nicer addition to Python
> than "switch" from C.
Can you post a quick summary of how you think this would work?
Cheers,
mwh
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