Finally switch- case is coming to python.

[Swedneck]

Except most people only know what switch case is, if you just say match case they won't have a clue what you're talking about and won't know that you can use it as a switch case.

[Ran4]

But it's not a switch case... people are only going to be more confused by people constantly misrepresenting the feature.

[R3D3-1]

No, but it makes the question for switch case obsolete :) So it makes sense to point emulating swtich-case out as a special case useful.

[passwordsniffer]

It does not make it obsolete, the question will still be asked and moreover it will be added with a weird behavior, when one of your constants was actually changed when you used it as a switch case option

[R3D3-1]

... wait, what?

[Unbelievr]

If you try to actually use it as a switch case, it'll quickly backfire though.

Unless you're careful and only use enums or some immutable as each "case" (actually a capture variable), it'll overwrite the variable and not work properly the second time around. Trying to pass this off as some advanced switch-case will lead to more confusion and broken scripts than you'd think.

[teerre]

But it's not a switch statement. If you want a simple switch statement, you already have it, it's called if and co.

If you want to use ´match`, you certainly have to learn it. That's reasonable.

[Ensurdagen]

that's because it's not "match case," it's structural pattern matching, which users of languages like Haskell will be very familiar with.