Op 04-09-15 om 02:47 schreef Mark Lawrence: > On 04/09/2015 01:06, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 01:05 PM, t...@freenet.de wrote: >> >>> [The same e.g. with switch statement: add it] >> >> Switch is a nice-to-have thing, but definitely not essential. A PEP here >> (probably already has been several) would at least be read anyway. >> However, there are several idiomatic ways of accomplishing the same >> thing that are often good enough and familiar to any Python programmer >> out there. Since functions are first-class objects, often a dispatch >> table is the best way to go here. >> > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/ "A Switch/Case Statement" by > Guido van Rossum, "Rejection Notice - A quick poll during my keynote > presentation at PyCon 2007 shows this proposal has no popular support. > I therefore reject it". > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0275/ "Switching on Multiple > Values" by Marc-André Lemburg, "Rejection Notice - A similar PEP for > Python 3000, PEP 3103 [2], was already rejected, so this proposal has > no chance of being accepted either." > Were those polls, like the poll he once did for the condtional expression? There the poll indicated no specific proposal had a majority, so for each specific proposal one could say it didn't have popular support, but the majority still prefered to have a conditional expression. But at that time Guido used that poll as an indication there was not enough support.
So colour me a bit sceptical when Guido comes with such a poll. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list