Hi Dmitrii
On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM Dmitry Derepko <xepo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I’m thinking about making match (true) and switch (true) be more lightweight
> by removing the subject “(true)” and making matching “true condition” by
> default.
> So $var = match (true) { … } can be used as $var = match { … }.
There's an old RFC draft for this that never went anywhere. I believe
the feedback was mixed, but there's no way to know how it would have
turned out since it never went into voting. Given it's inactive, it
should be ok for you to take over.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short-match
https://externals.io/message/112496
> `when` construction is overwhelming, but some features are totally handy,
> such as checking for class of the subject:
> when (obj) {
> is Class1 -> …
> is Class2 -> …
> else -> ...
> }
>
> Which was implemented by Ilija Tovilo in:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...iluuu1994:pattern-matching
This is a really old draft. The RFC itself is mostly up to date. The
implementation is still WIP.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-matching
Ilija
