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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python by jnxx on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:11AM (#26087030)
According to the specification pointed to by choeger in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26086589 , failed matches like that can also assign a value to existing variables, which seems even more problematic to me.
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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python by pfalcon on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:23AM (#26087488)
Thus, will be fixed sooner or later. (Sad it's not fixed right away, but neither me nor you proposed patches.)
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