I couldn't find any information on whether this was considered and rejected
during the pattern matching PEP, so apologies if this is already settled.
I've just encountered this use-case repeatedly so I figured it was time to
make a thread on this.
Basically, I'd like to be able to designate a pat
I really like this. One problem though is that it's not immediately obvious
what happens with binding patterns and "as" clauses. In the code inside the
case statement, should these identifiers refer to the last value matched, or
should they accumulate all the matches in a list?
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Great point Valentin. I do think it's worthwhile to allow capturing
variadic sub-patterns while destructuring.
For symmetry with variadic function arguments (*args) I would actually
suggest accumulating all the values using a tuple and bind that tuple to
the name, but I'm not precious about using
