My gut tells me the logical `or` here should use the word "or" like in the rest of the language.
Neat syntax overall but it's not clear what it makes more succinct than the equivalent `elif` statements.
Neat syntax overall but it's not clear what it makes more succinct than the equivalent `elif` statements.
> it's not clear what it makes more succinct than the equivalent `elif` statements
But pattern matching is shorter than if-else in many cases and can actually differentiate between structures which makes it very flexible. It's like switch-case should have been from the start imho.
As an example, in Rust I often do comparisons between certain values by simply matching a tuple of them:
match (foo, bar) {
(x, x) => true, // foo == bar
(Foo::VariantA(42), _) => unreachable!(), // has to be a bug
(Foo::VariantA(a), _) => a < 0,
_ => false,
}
Although I'm not sure what to think of Python's preference to put the condition and code in different lines; maybe that's optional, which could make it more succinct when the situation permits it.