On Sat, Jun 24, 2006, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > So, that is it, my proposal for simple switch statements with a > straight-forward implementation, fast execution, simply explained > behavior, and applicability to to the most important use cases.
+1 I've been trying to write a response to these threads. I don't particularly like what looks like an attempt to shove together too many different features into a single package. Raymond's proposal gives Python the switch statement people have been demanding while leaving room for the improvements that have been suggested over a plain switch. Phillip's point about longs and Unicode is valid, but easily addressed by limiting cases to "hashable literal" (though we might want to explicitly exclude floats). -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there." --Steve Gonedes _______________________________________________ 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
