On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:21 -0400, Brian Beck wrote: > Donovan Baarda wrote: > > Agreed. I don't find any switch syntaxes better than if/elif/else. Speed > > benefits belong in implementation optimisations, not new bad syntax. > > I posted this 'switch' recipe to the Cookbook this morning, it saves > some typing over the if/elif/else construction, and people seemed to > like it. Take a look: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/410692
Very clever... you have shown that current python syntax is capable of almost exactly replicating a C case statement. My only problem is C case statements are ugly. A simple if/elif/else is much more understandable to me. The main benefit in C of case statements is the compiler can optimise them. This copy of a C case statement will be slower than an if/elif/else, and just as ugly :-) -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ _______________________________________________ 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
