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How to react when significant changes in some technology require new answers or comments to locked questions?

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Recently the new release of Python 3.10 introduced a new syntax called match/case which is in fact a classical switch/case syntax (ref: https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/3.10.html).

This is crucial from the perspective of the quality of the following very active question: Replacements for switch statement in Python?:

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The new situation may require new answers (or updating the existing ones) or at least comments below question. For the above example, it's not possible to add a new answer nor comment.

How should we react in such a case? I flagged this question for the moderator intervention but I'd prefer to confirm that this was the right decision.


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