On Saturday, September 9, 2017 6:21 AM, ilija.tov...@me.com wrote:
> I find myself writing switch statements in PHP quite rarely. This has a few
> reasons:
> 1. It doesn’t have a "strict_types” version
> ...
> I assume that some people will not be so happy about having to switch-like
> constructs. IMO the implicit type conversion is the biggest issue here. Maybe
> we could offer a solution for this one at least.
I also rarely use switch, primarily because of the lack of strict comparison.
Personally I would prefer having an option for strict comparison when using
switch, similar to how `in_array` has an optional `$strict` parameter.
Would it be possible to add an optional `$strict` parameter to switch? E.g.
```
switch ($i, true) {
case 1:
echo 'i is 1';
break;
case: 1.0:
echo 'i is 1.0';
break;
case '1':
echo 'i is "1"';
break;
case true:
echo 'i is true';
break;
}
```
-Theodore Brown
