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Hi everybody!
Has this idea been discussed before?
I find myself writing switch statements in PHP quite rarely. This has a few
reasons:
1. It doesn’t have a "strict_types” version
2. It is quite verbose (lots of breaks)
3. It is a statement rather than an expression
Often, if / elseif statements turn out to be shorter, safer and easier to
read than the switch statement.
What I’d really love is something like a match expression:
If there are circumstances where a series of if / elseif statements turn out
to be shorter, safer and easier to read than a switch statement, then the
intelligent thing to do would be to use if / elseif statements instead of
trying to make the switch statement more complicated. If your problem with
the switch statement is that you sometimes forget to insert a break
statement then that is your fault. Try to use the language features as they
were intended to be used and not how you would personally like to use them.
Millions of other programmers have no problem with the switch statement, and
they would not be pleased to have it changed just to deal with your
perceived problem with it.
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Tony Marston
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