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To: Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Match expression
From: me@kelunik.com (Niklas Keller)

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2017-09-10 18:05 GMT+02:00 Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com>:

> On Saturday, September 9, 2017 6:21 AM, ilija.tovilo@me.com wrote:
>
> > I find myself writing switch statements in PHP quite rarely. This has a
> few reasons:
> > 1. It doesn=E2=80=99t have a "strict_types=E2=80=9D 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 `$strict` paramet=
er.
>
> Would it be possible to add an optional `$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;
> }


I'd very much prefer a "strict switch ($i) { ... }" over a second parameter=
.

Regards, Niklas

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