Nikita Popov wrote on 14.06.2018 10:35:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:53 AM, Sara Golemon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Just for casual discussion at this point:
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3297
>>
>> switch ($a) {
>> case FOO:
>> // Works exactly as current behavior.
>> break;
>> case == FOO:
>> // Nearly identical, though not using the ZEND_CASE optimization.
>> // Can probably make this equivalent to `case FOO`, but it felt
>> like an interesting direction.
>> break;
>> case === FOO:
>> // Only triggers if `$a === FOO`, no type juggling
>> break;
>> }
>>
>> Love it? Hate it? See obvious flaws? The implementation is just a
>> rushed proof of concept, not something I've labored over, it may well
>> have bugs. Certainly wouldn't target anything earlier than 7.4, if at
>> all.
>>
>
> I like the general idea here (switch with strict type comparison), but not
> super fond of the particular syntax and implementation.
>
> I think if people want to use strict matching, they'll quite likely want to
> have it on all cases. Something like "strict switch ($expr) {}" or "switch
> strict ($expr) {}" or "switch (strict $expr) {}" or "switch ($expr) strict
> {}" or "switch ($expr) { strict; }" or whatever would be preferable in that
> case.
>
> Additionally, switch has the issue of fall-through behavior, which is
> somewhat unexpected and error prone to many people. It might make sense to
> introduce an entirely new "match" statement that conforms a bit more with
> how switch-like strictures are implemented nowadays. That is, something like
>
> match ($expr) {
> "foo" => {...},
> "bar" | "baz" => {...},
> }
>
> or similar. This might need some more design work to ensure forward
> compatibility with potential future algebraic datatypes etc.
>
> Nikita
>
for simplicity I would use an extra parameter to have a strict comparison
(similar to the extra parameter in in_array()):
switch ($a, true) { // strict comparison
switch ($a) { // loose comparison
Regards
Thomas
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