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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:36:03 +0100
To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate alternate switch case syntax?
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

Am 2024-11-20 20:03, schrieb Derick Rethans:
> All my PHP based templates for the xdebug.org site use this style. I 
> don't think it's atrocious, and quite a bit nicer than the "new" 
> syntax.

This proposal would not affect that. You would just need to add a colon 
after the `case` statement, not a semicolon. In fact that would more 
closely match the corresponding `switch`, which would also need to have 
a colon:

     <?php $foo = "bar"; ?>

     <?php
     switch ($foo):
     case "bar":
     ?>
     BAR
     <?php break; case "baz": ?>
     BAZ
     <?php endswitch; ?>

Though using `switch` in such templates is somewhat finicky anyway, 
because it will need to be merged with the first `case`, because 
otherwise:

> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_INLINE_HTML "", expecting 
> "endswitch" or "case" or "default"

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus