In message <i8o1ij$ro...@news.eternal-september.org>, BartC wrote: > "NevilleDNZ" <neville...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:ad9841df-49a1-4c1b-95d0-e76b72df6...@w9g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > >> In Algol68 this would be: >> x:=(i|"One","Two","Three"|"None Of The Above") > > The point is, the construction works well when the syntax fully supports > it.
But note that Algol 68 doesn’t support explicit labels on the alternatives in a case expression or statement. That idea came later. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
