Guido van Rossum wrote:
> (Note how I've switched to the switch-for-efficiency camp, since it
> seems better to have clear semantics and a clear reason for the syntax
> to be different from if/elif chains.)
if you're now in the efficiency camp, why not just solve this on the
code generator level ? given
var = some expression
if var == constant:
...
elif var == constant:
...
let the compiler use a dispatch table, if it can and wants to.
</F>
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