On 7/5/06, Andrew Clover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (I'm not super confident about the syntax alternatives yet.) > > The switch:-without-indent business still naggingly makes me feel > uncomfortable.
Me too, but only on even-numbered days... > Is this a valid no-case-switch? > > switch cake: > print 'hello' No. A switch must have one or more case suites and then optionally an else suite. > Here's another syntax off the top of my head - put the first case in the > switch statement? > > switch biscuit.type if 'digestive': > ... > elif in 'jammy_dodger', 'garibaldi': > ... > else: > ... Ah please. If you *have* to make up new syntax from a random jumble of keywords, at least make it a bit fun, like Barry's "as if" proposal in another thread. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
