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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:35:56 +0700
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To: Robert Hickman <robehickman@gmail.com>
Cc: PHP Internals List <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inline switch as alternative to nested inline conditional
From: webdevxp.com@gmail.com (Kosit Supanyo)

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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 <robehickman@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}";
>

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