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Thu Jun 22 18:46:15 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-June/066378.html

On 6/22/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure I care about that. Do you use this in teaching? How does
it help you?

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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