Re: [PHP-DEV] switch() and default:

[Andi Gutmans]

I don't think we should do anything about it. From day 1 we treated 
switch() like a loop as far as break/continue is concerned, mainly because 
we wanted break/continue to be consistent. You might find this odd but you 
actually have more power in PHP than in C as you can break out or continue 
from multiple loops.
In my opinion this is definitely not something which should be changed at 
this point.
BTW, I think we have a fix for the switch() thingy. I still have to look at 
it more closely before commiting though.

Andi
At 05:37 PM 10/8/2004 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
Slightly OT, but while we are on the subject of switch not being
C-ish, how about making it so that continue inside a switch block
behaves the way it does in C?
This C code snippet:
while (1) {
     printf("top\n");
     switch (1) {
          case 1:
               continue;
     }
     printf("bork\n");
}
will print out "top\n" repeatedly.
The same code in PHP will print out "top\nbork\n" repeatedly.
The get the same behaviour as the C code you need to use continue 2 instead.
IMO, this is awful, and at first I thought it was a BC break, but it
seems that the stock RHEL 4.3.2 version of PHP behaves the same way.
What, if anything, should we do about this?
--Wez.
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