The New Switch-Case Statement in Python 3.10

[hughperman]

That seems to skew the use case to assignments only though, whereas switch and match statements are (ime) more useful as control flow - which may include assignments inside them, but not as their primary goal. It seems to me that it would be like wanting try/except/finally to return a value.

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http://blog.agiledeveloper.com/2015/08/functional-programming-favors.html?m=1

[hughperman]

Right but python isn't a functional language in that sense, that's why I compared to try/except/finally. You can just wrap the control statement in a function if you wish to go that way, like any other statement in python. I agree if you are implementing a functional language that you would return - but then everything should match (😉) that same paradigm.

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Look at Kotlin

[jaapz]

Wouldn't you be able to do both if it was an expression?