From f05b2f5b41694a51aa0fdd4b6dc552e4ff345ab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: max <36980911+pr2502@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:44:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (cherry picked from commit dd5cf84f245abf84405833320b8f25dbc43b24d2) Co-authored-by: max <36980911+pr2502@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index f6e013b23e7e58..99a77e7addd774 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::