On 2020-07-11 20:56, Steve Holden wrote:
Given that case will be a keyword, what's the case (pun unintentional)
for indenting the case clauses? What's wrong with 'case' and 'else' both
indented the same as match? Without the keyword there'd be a case for
indenting, but with it I don't see the necessity.
Kind regards,
Steve
The issue is as follows.
In Python, the style is that multi-line statements start with a keyword
and that logical line ends with a colon. The next line is a statement,
which is indented. The other parts of the statement structure are
indented the same amount as its first line:
if ...:
...
elif ...:
...
else:
...
The 'match' statement (or a 'switch' statement), however, can't follow
the existing style.
It's either:
match ...:
case ...:
case ...:
where the second line isn't indented (unlike all other structures), or:
match ...:
case ...:
case ...:
where the other parts of the structure (the cases) aren't indented the
same as the first line.
Another possibility is:
match:
...
case ...:
case ...:
but the second line is an expression, not a statement (unlike all other
structures).
An alternative is:
match ...
case ...:
case ...:
no colon ending the first line, and no indenting of the second line, but
that's unlike all other structures too.
None of the possibilities are formatted like the existing style.
So it's a case of picking the least inelegant one.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:09 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz
<mailto:greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>> wrote:
A thought about the indentation level of a speculated "else" clause...
Some people have argued that "else" should be at the outer level,
because that's the way it is in all the existing compound statements.
However, in those statements, all the actual code belonging to the
statement is indented to the same level:
if a:
....
elif b:
....
else:
....
^
|
Code all indented to this level
But if we were to indent "else" to the same level as "match",
the code under it would be at a different level from the rest.
match a:
case 1:
....
case 2:
....
else:
....
^ ^
| |
Code indented to two different levels
This doesn't seem right to me, because all of the cases, including
the else, are on the same footing semantically, just as they are in
an "if" statement.
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