Josiah Carlson wrote: > Offering arbitrary expressions whose > meaning can vary at runtime would kill any potential speedup (the > ultimate purpose for having a switch statement)
I don't agree that speedup is *the* ultimate purpose of a switch statement. There's also the matter of providing a construct that expresses the high-level intent of the code more clearly than an if-else chain. I think both of these are equally important. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
