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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:04:56 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Short-match
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, at 6:49 PM, someniatko wrote:
> `match` is an expression, where as if-else construction is not. This
> allows for combining it with a potential future feature of single line
> functions and methods. For example (hypothetical syntax is used):
> 
> ```
> function getNumberKind(int $number) => match {
>     $number > 0 => NumberKind::POSITIVE,
>     $number == 0 => NumberKind::ZERO,
>     $number < 0 => NumberKind::NEGATIVE,
> }
> ```
> 
> See how natural it looks and reads.

Ah, someone gets what I'm driving toward overall. :-)

--Larry Garfield