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Expand Up @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Or patterns

Going back to the adventure game example, you may find that you'd like to have several
patterns resulting in the same outcome. For example, you might want the commands
``north`` and ``go north`` be equivalent. You may also desire to have aliases for
``north`` and ``go north`` to be equivalent. You may also desire to have aliases for
``get X``, ``pick up X`` and ``pick X up`` for any X.

The ``|`` symbol in patterns combines them as alternatives. You could for example write::
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This code is a single branch, and it verifies that the word after "go" is really a
direction. But the code moving the player around needs to know which one was chosen and
has no way to do so. What we need is a pattern that behaves like the or pattern but at
the same time does a capture. We can do so with a **as pattern**::
the same time does a capture. We can do so with an **as pattern**::

match command.split():
case ["go", ("north" | "south" | "east" | "west") as direction]:
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