Guido van Rossum wrote: >> I've also been wondering whether the 'case' keyword is really necessary? >> Would any ambiguities or other parsing problems arise if you wrote: >> >> switch x: >> 1: foo(x) >> 2: bar(x) >> >> It is debatable whether this is more or less readable, but it seemed >> like an interesting question for the language lawyers. > > That's no problem for the parser, as long as the expressions are > indented. ABC did this. > > But I think I like an explicit case keyword better; it gives a better > error message if the indentation is forgotten.
It also overthrows the notion that suites are started by statements, not by expressions. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
