Hi Robert
That is impossible to implement because there's no way to tell the parser
that `switch` is statement or expression and it conflicts with `=>` in
array key expression (that's why PHP chose to have arrow function with `fn`
prefixed). And IMO your idea is harder to read than normal assignment
Regards
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 8:58 PM Robert Hickman <robehick...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > <?php
> > > $say = switch (date("w")) {
> > > case 0 => "weekend!";
> > > case 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 => "weekday :(";
> > > case 6 => "weekend!";
> > > };
> > > echo "Today is {$say}";
>
> If you had a really long expression, it may be easier to read if the
> assignment was moved to the end, perhaps like this:
>
> switch (date("w")) {
> case 0 => "weekend!";
> case 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 => "weekday :(";
> case 6 => "weekend!";
> // lots more cases ...
> } => $say;
>
> echo "Today is {$say}";
>
