At 03:38 AM 6/21/2006 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > Well, EIBTI and all that: > > > > switch x: > > case == 1: foo(x) > > case in S: bar(x) > > > > It even lines up nicely. :) > >Hmm, this is rather nice. I can imagine possible use cases for > > switch x: > case > 3: foo(x) > case is y: spam(x) > case == z: eggs(x) > >An interesting use case for which this offers no corresponding >syntax is > > case instanceof ClassA: ham(x)
Actually, I was assuming that any other operator besides == and 'in' would be relegated to an if-elif chain in the default case, although it's almost possible to do that automatically, I suppose. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
