[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching

2020-06-24 Thread Taine Zhao
Thanks a lot for making this. I've been keeping excited since I heard this several hours ago! I'm a researcher(and also a student) in some field dedicated in the study of programming language constructs, including pattern matching. **Python Pattern Matching** is something special to me, which f

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 622: Structural Pattern Matching

2020-06-24 Thread Taine Zhao
> e.g., "or", and then I wonder "what does short-circuiting have to do > with it?". All reuse of symbols carries baggage. "or" brings an intuition of the execution order of pattern matching, just like how people already know about "short-circuiting". "or" 's operator precedence also suggests the