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Tue Apr 26 02:01:05 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-April/052936.html

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 18:20 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:
[...]
> If speed for a limited number of cases is the only advantage, 
> then I would say it belongs in (at most) the implementation, 
> rather than the language spec.  

Agreed. I don't find any switch syntaxes better than if/elif/else. Speed
benefits belong in implementation optimisations, not new bad syntax.

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Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/

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[Python-Dev] Re: switch statement