At 12:44 AM 6/12/2006 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>the compiler can of course figure that out also for if/elif/else state-
>ments, by inspecting the AST. the only advantage for switch/case is
>user syntax...
Not quite true - you'd have to restrict the switch expression in some way,
so you don't have:
if x.y == 1:
...
elif x.y == 2:
...
where the compiler doesn't know if getattr(x,'y') is really supposed to
happen more than once. But I suppose you could class that as syntax.
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