On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:38 PM Luciano Ramalho <luci...@ramalho.org> wrote:
> Thank you Guido, Brandt Bucher, Tobias Kohn, Ivan Levkivskyi and Talin > for this fun and very useful new feature. > > I do enjoy pattern matching a lot in Elixir—my favorite language these > days, after Python. > > I don't want to start a discussion, but I just want to say that as an > instructor I fear this core language addition may make the language > less approachable to the non-IT professionals, researchers etc. who > have saved Python from the decline that we can observe happening in > Ruby—a language of similar age, with similar strengths and weaknesses, > but never widely adopted outside of the IT profession. > > After I wrap up Fluent Python 2e (which is aimed at professional > developers) I hope I can find the time to tackle the challenge of > creating introductory Python content that manages to explain pattern > matching and other recent developments in a way that is accessible to > all. > Hold on a while. This feature does not exist. This PEP has not been accepted. Don't count your chickens.py before they hatch. The last P in PEP stands for Proposal for a reason. Rejection is a perfectly valid option. As is a significant reworking of the proposal so that it doesn't turn into a nightmare. This one needs a lot of work at a minimum. As proposed, it is extremely non-approachable and non-trivial. -gps
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