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

"Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2

Posted Sep 9, 2020 13:37 UTC (Wed) by milesrout (guest, #126894)
In reply to: "Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2 by kleptog
Parent article: "Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 2

At that point, how is this better than


(x, y) = size
if x == y:
    circle()
else:
    ellipse()

I would contend that it is not. It is an extra level of indentation and a whole new complicated language construct.

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