Comments on Tiago, O Irrepupável: Pattern Matching on Python Decorators

If you want to see what sort of interesting stuff ...

2007-01-10T23:32:00.000-01:00

If you want to see what sort of interesting stuff can be done with pattern matching in Python you should check out PJE's RuleDispatch package (part of the PEAK framework, but RuleDispatch can be used without the rest of the framework...)

If you think about pattern matching as a domain sp...

2006-10-21T14:26:00.000Z

If you think about pattern matching as a domain specific language then it is normal that, out of its domain, it is regarded as "unreadable", yet within its context shouldn't :P

That's clever, but it seems to make the code unrea...

2006-10-21T12:03:00.000Z

That's clever, but it seems to make the code unreadable and un-pythonic (actually, unreadable code is un-pythonic by definition).

Pattern matching is an interesting feature of functional languages, but I doubt its usefulness in a language like Python.