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Subject: Discussion: making continue and break into an expression
From: landers.robert@gmail.com (Robert Landers)

Hello internals,

Now that throwing is an expression, it allows for some very concise
programming. What are your thoughts on making a break/continue into an
expression as well?

Instead of:

while(true) {
...
if(is_null($arr['var'])) continue;
if($something) continue; else break;
...
}

You could write

while(true) {
...
$arr['var'] ?? continue;
$something ? continue : break;
...
}

Robert Landers
Software Engineer
Utrecht NL