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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python by jnxx on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:36PM (#26094407)
> then you have the opposite problem - you need to do extra leg-work to communicate a value to the surrounding scope.

that would be far less likely to break things in an unexpected way, as in "explicit is better than implicit".

I am also wondering whether what is really missing here is perhaps a kind of imperative switch/case statement which has the explicit purpose of changing function variables.

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