Guido van Rossum wrote: > Here's an argument for allowing names (this argument has been used > successfully for using names instead of string literals in many APIs): > if there is a spelling error in the string literal, the case will > silently be ignored, and who knows when the bug is detected. If there > is a spelling error in a NAME, however, the error will be caught as > soon as it is evaluated.
which is the rationale for using names in SRE, of course. and adding a proper switch statement will make this approach a bit robust; if all cases are marked as static (or made static by default), all case expressions will be evaluated up front. </F> _______________________________________________ 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
