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		repsilat on June 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching More vice versa. Guards look more general (being able to express not-equal, and less-than etc), so special semantics for `x,x` only seem warranted if it's very common.

RhysU on June 26, 2020 [–]

Agreed they're more general. If I have a working guard implementation I can build the x, x case atop it. Meaning, the x, x case can be sugar.

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