The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python.

Rejoice! Gone are the long chains of if…else statements, because switch statements will soon be here — sort of. What the Python gods are actually giving us are match statements. match s… ...

This is where I think Python falls a bit short compared to more functional languages. Now, I don't mind the new syntax at all, to me it's much clearer than C, but if the if/else statement acted ...