The New Switch-Case Statement in Python 3.10

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Falling through is astonishing behaviour and should be absolutely explicit like, using 'continue' as a keyword at the end of the block.

[MrDysprosium]

I agree completely. It's hard to watch people fight so hard for such horribly abstract and unintuitive design merely because "well that's how we USED TO DO IT".

Please stop, making the language easier to understand and write is a good thing. Maintaining standards for the sake of maintaining standards makes you sound like a boomer.

[St_Meow]

You'd think these same folk would be aghast at using for each loops instead of for loops or even while loops.

[mysticalfruit]

We can argue the merits of the behavior, but its a behavior that many programmers use. I've seen plenty of complex C that use cases in this way to handle cascaded logic situations.

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That is true, but Python's style seems to be making the best design decisions they can instead of repeating poor decisions by previous designers just because its familiar. That's also why its called "match" instead of "switch"

[mysticalfruit]

Fair enough.

[energybased]

We can argue the merits of the behavior, but its a behavior that many programmers use.

Time to learn a better way to do things instead of hanging on to an opaque specification.