"Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2 [LWN.net]

"Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2

Posted Sep 2, 2020 13:18 UTC (Wed) by caliloo (subscriber, #50055)
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What irks me is all the mention of other languages being surveyed to see how they did it. If python had started like that its particular style of indentation that makes it so readable and concise would never have existed.
For me this tastes of feature FOMO more than design opinion, which is a red flag. The thing about variable match or assign in the brackets make my hair stand up from a language design stand point. If that can be alleviated, then for me it’s fine...

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"Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2

Posted Sep 6, 2020 21:18 UTC (Sun) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

I hadn't heard of "Fear Of Missing Out" before. Thanks.

It does seem that, with the newer release cycle, Python is going down the Java "featuritis" road.

On the other hand, this seems to take Python more in a Haskell-ish direction.

Good news? Bad news? Who can say?

On the other hand, the languages that fail to add new features seem to be the ones nobody's using any longer. It's more of an economic than technical arms race, apparently.