On 6/25/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I'm currently leaning > > towards making static expressions outside a function illegal and limit > > switches outside a function to compile-time-constant expressions. > > I'm not sure I like the idea of having things that > are illegal outside a function, because it can be a > nuisance for code refactoring. > > I'd be happy if case worked at the top level, but > wasn't any faster than if-elses. That wouldn't be > so bad -- top-level code is already slower due to > global variable accesses. > > Also I don't care what happens if you change the > case values of a top-level case. It's undefined > behaviour anyway.
Fair enough. I wasn't leaning very strongly anyway. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
