Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:102271 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45279 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2018 06:36:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 2018 06:36:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sebastian@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sebastian@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 188.94.27.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sebastian@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 188.94.27.5 scarlet.netpirates.net Received: from [188.94.27.5] ([188.94.27.5:40608] helo=scarlet.netpirates.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 79/01-29356-75E532B5 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 02:36:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 17255 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jun 2018 06:36:05 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 17246, pid: 17250, t: 0.0615s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.99.1/m:/d:20700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.178.41?) (php@sebastian-bergmann.de@93.226.196.80) by scarlet.netpirates.net with ESMTPA; 15 Jun 2018 06:36:05 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Reply-To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <82788099-3fba-282a-8d28-68b0ea3276be@php.net> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:36:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict switch statements From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) Am 14.06.2018 um 10:35 schrieb Nikita Popov: > 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. Interesting. Can you provide a pointer to a language that has a match statement like that?