Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...

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Switch statements and the case blocks they contain have been a mainstay of C-language flow-control syntax since the initial incarnation of the language back in the 1970s. C# inherited the overall ...

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