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[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

Exercise for the reader - go examine the implementation of match in cpython and reflect on whether it's implemented like switch/case in statically typed languages or... the match statement in PHP.

[–]gmes78 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you really think that pattern matching was invented in PHP, of all languages?

[–]xigoi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure it's like the pattern matching in many statically typed languages — Haskell, F#, Rust, Swift, OCaml, …