On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 7:30 AM Eric Nieuwland <eric.nieuwl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great PEP! > Thanks! I have some doubt about the keyword: ‘match’ seems to be at odds with > ‘for’, ‘while’, ‘with’, ‘if’ as it is more of an action. > It’s more like ‘try’ but that statement has a completely different > structure. > Well, 'try' is also an action. :-) Many people have tried to come up with a different keyword here, but nothing has been found that comes even close to the simplicity of match. Plus, several other languages (Scala, Rust) use it too (which is further evidence that it's a natural fit). > Not a native speaker I don’t have a reasonable alternative, though. > Me neither, but I speak it quite fluently now, and 'match' really feels like it fits well here. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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