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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:01:25 +0100
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To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict switch
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 19:57 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:

>
>
> Disagree.  switch is a procedural logic flow control.  match is an
> evaluation expression.  Things like fallthrough do not belong there, as it
> mushes expressions together in weird ways.  match is lovely because its
> logic flow is simple and predictable.  We should keep that.
>

Full ack: the power of the new expression is that it is in fact an
expression.

Adding procedural capabilities only makes it more complicated, and for that
you can already shoot yourself in a foot with `switch`

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