On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >Skip Montanaro <montanaro@tttech.com>: >> One other post I saw in this thread used explicit breaks as is required in >> C. I would get rid of that. When the current case's code ends, control >> flow should just jump to the end of the switch. > >I disagree. Such fallthrough is very useful when writing state machines, >which is a significant part of the utility of a case statement. +0 on the idea of some kind of switch statement, but -1 on bringing C's glorified computed GOTO into Python. Maybe it would be a good idea to use some other keyword(s), so as to avoid confusion with C altogether, e.g select/when instead of switch/case. /Paul
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