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Re:What’s in Which Python by fnord123 on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:54AM (#31479074)
How is pattern matching a breaking change? If your code doesn't have it how would it break?
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Re:What’s in Which Python by nedbat on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:22PM (#31483003)
Some people might mistakenly assume that "match" and "case" are now hard keywords, which would of course break lots of code.

But they are soft keywords, so there's no issue.

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