Hi Ralph,
Like others, I think this feels too narrow in its scope, and doesn't add
enough over existing syntax.
You mention that Ruby has a similar feature, but there it's not a
special syntax for guard clauses per se, but a "modifier" form of the if
statement:
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.7.0/syntax/control_expressions_rdoc.html#label-Modifier+if+and+unless
Along with "unless" (an alias for "if not"), it's supposed to let you
write more sentence-like code:
print "Hat Trick!" if $goals == 3;
throw new BadInputException unless is_valid($input);
In fact, Ruby also has modifier forms of while and until; and Perl
(where I think this all came from) also for and foreach.
I'm not sure whether I'd welcome that syntax in PHP or not, but it would
be one way to allow the throw, break, etc cases that other people have
mentioned in addition to return, rather than having to invent special
syntaxes for each.
Regards,
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Rowan Tommins (né Collins)
[IMSoP]
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