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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-06-21 19:53:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-06-21 19:53:07 (GMT) |
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Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (GH-94084)
(cherry picked from commit dd5cf84f245abf84405833320b8f25dbc43b24d2)
Co-authored-by: max <36980911+pr2502@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index f6e013b..99a77e7 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ at a more abstract level. The :keyword:`!pass` is silently ignored:: A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive patterns given as one or more case blocks. This is superficially similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many -other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or -object attributes) from the value into variables. +other languages), but it's more similar to pattern matching in +languages like Rust or Haskell. Only the first pattern that matches +gets executed and it can also extract components (sequence elements +or object attributes) from the value into variables. The simplest form compares a subject value against one or more literals:: |