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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Match expression
From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston")

wrote in message news:3b05768a-95b7-42de-8bb8-3d9ce0cce3a5@Spark...
>
>> it makes it impossible to group several conditions with a single break
>
>In Swift you can group multiple conditions with a comma `,` and in Rust 
>with a pipe `|`. Here’s how that could look in PHP:
>
>```php
>match ($x) {
>    1, 2: ‘One or two’;
>}
>```

Just because other languages have different ways of implementing certain 
features is no reason why PHP should include the same implementations. That 
ius why there are so many different languages - because they do things 
differently. If they were all the same there would be no need for different 
languages.

>The only thing you cannot do is this:
>
>```php
>switch ($x) {
>    case 1:
>        echo “One\n”;
>    case 2:
>        echo “Two\n”;
>        break;
>}
>```
>
>Meaning you cannot “bleed through” the first case into the second, 
>executing both in case of `$x` being `1`. This is acceptable IMO because 
>this looks like a bug even if it’s intended.

For people who RTFM and know how PHP works that code is perfectly acceptable 
and not buggy in the least.

>>  then why can't you use if/elseif instead of making the language more 
>> complicated?
>
>Because that’s usually the perfect use case for a switch statement.

So why are you proposing a third alternative to the switch of if/elseif 
statements?

-- 
Tony Marston