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paulddraper on Dec 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

> Additionally it is possible to code the match function to implement the functionality I am talking about during runtime instead of compile time.

Maybe, but I'm not sure there's more value in that.

crimsonalucard on Dec 17, 2018 [–]

Having match crash immediately helps you identify the branch error without explicitly writing a test case for it. It is equivalent to raising an exception.

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