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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] match expression
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

Am 26.04.2020 um 10:15 schrieb Marco Pivetta:
> By enforcing only expressions to be on the right-hand-side, we get some
> nice side-effects too:
> 
>   * no need to discuss `continue`
>   * no need to discuss `break`
>   * no need to discuss `return`
> 
> Overall, that would be a win-win.

Makes sense to me.

> A point has been risen about the fact that using closures increases memory
> usage and stack frames: that's a compiler optimization concern, and
> probably also a minor one, since I'd discourage procedural code on the RHS
> anyway :-)

Agreed.

> I'd be voting YES on the RFC if the blocks were gone.

Same (I think).