I love the new pattern matching with match
/case
, and anticipate using it heavily. What I’m not so keen on is the “match everything else” at the end (case _
).
Why couldn’t a hard, “final” case be added such as this:
match myval:
case 1:
return 'One'
case 2:
return 'Two'
finally:
return 'No value given'
I feel like this has two benefits:
- It matches other control flow that has a “final” case, such as
if/elif/else
andtry/except/finally
. - It could enforce that there are no further conditions added after it, that will never be reached… with
case _
, it would be easy to add another case beneath that without thinking.
case _
could still work, but something like finally
would be available and more accepted? maybe?