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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:33:16 -0500
To: "php internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] match expression
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, at 1:41 AM, Ilija Tovilo wrote:
> > Or for that matter... is anyone actually using that syntax in the wild, or is it hypothetical?
> 
> It's quite common in C (you can't declare variables directly in a
> switch case) so I'd guess it would be used at least by some people in
> PHP.
> 
> The worst part is that your code wouldn't throw, it would just start
> behaving differently.
> 
> Looking at grep.app you'll find quite a few of them.
> https://grep.app/search?q=%3A%20%7B&filter[lang][0]=PHP
> (Note that searching with regex won't work as that only shows a very
> small subset of results.)
> 
> Ilija

Well, poopy.

I still think splitting the RFC in half (rust-style match and Go-style switch) is the correct way forward, whatever the syntax particulars.

--Larry Garfield