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Tutorial: specify match cases don't fall through (GH-93615) (GH-94083)
(cherry picked from commit dd5cf84) Co-authored-by: max <[email protected]>
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A :keyword:`match` statement takes an expression and compares its value to successive
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patterns given as one or more case blocks. This is superficially
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similar to a switch statement in C, Java or JavaScript (and many
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other languages), but it can also extract components (sequence elements or
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object attributes) from the value into variables.
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other languages), but it's more similar to pattern matching in
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languages like Rust or Haskell. Only the first pattern that matches
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gets executed and it can also extract components (sequence elements
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or object attributes) from the value into variables.
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The simplest form compares a subject value against one or more literals::
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