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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 08:26:27 +0300
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To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict switch statements
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> 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 love it for the === part. Countless times I've had to avoid switch
statements because they can't do strict comparisons.

Cheers,
Andrey.