On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 15:24, Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> Partly because that's where the other discussants are (the network
> externality is undeniably powerful), and partly (I believe) because
> effective use of email is a skill that requires effort to acquire.
> Popular mail clients are designed to be popular, not to make that
> expertise easy to acquire and exercise. Clunky use of email makes
> lists much less pleasant for everyone than they could be.
>
> I guess that's sad (I am, after all, a GNU Mailman developer), but
> it's reality.
>
Personally, I'm sad because some people whose contributions I enjoy (you
being one of them :-)) didn't move to Discourse. But like you say, it's how
things are.
Christian - you can make named constants using class attributes (or an
enum):
class A:
M = "M"
match seq:
case A.M, A.M, A.M, A.M, *r:
return 4*1000, r
Basically, the "names are treated as variables to assign to" rule doesn't
apply to attributes.
I'm not sure how helpful that is (it's not particularly *shorter*) but I
think the idea was that most uses of named constants in a match statement
would be enums or module attributes. And compromises had to be made.
Cheers,
Paul
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