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… ...

Structural pattern matching not only makes it possible to perform simple switch/case style matches, but also supports a broader range of use cases.

Switch is a research-based, patented feature within VEXcode, VEX Robotics' coding platform for all its products. To date, VEXcode has offered students both block-based and python coding languages.