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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>, Niels Dossche
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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From: theodorejb@outlook.com (Theodore Brown)

On Tue, July 8, 2025 at 06:35 Christoph M. Becker wrote:=0A=
=0A=
> On 08.07.2025 at 01:30, Theodore Brown wrote:=0A=
>=0A=
>> I believe Derick was commenting specifically on using separate <?php ?> =
tags interleaved around=0A=
>> each switch, case, break, and endswitch statement (which there are no pl=
ans to deprecate). Based=0A=
>> on the follow-up replies from him and Tim, deprecating semicolon-termina=
ted case statements=0A=
>> would not affect his xdebug.org site templates.=0A=
>=0A=
> The use case we're talking about would be something like (indented to=0A=
> avoid issues with Newsreaders):=0A=
>=0A=
> =A0 <?switch ($foo):?>=0A=
> =A0 <?case 1?>=0A=
> =A0 <p>1</p>=0A=
> =A0 <?break?>=0A=
> =A0 <?case 2?>=0A=
> =A0 <p>2</p>=0A=
> =A0 <?break?>=0A=
> =A0 <?endswitch?>=0A=
>=0A=
> If that code wouldn't trigger a deprecation notice, fine.=A0 However, we=
=0A=
> had apparently introduced an inconsistency then.=0A=
=0A=
Hi Christoph,=0A=
=0A=
I implemented the deprecation in a branch in order to test this [1].=0A=
That code would emit deprecation notices, and should be fixed by adding a c=
olon=0A=
after each case statement, just like is required after the opening `switch =
($foo)`.=0A=
=0A=
> Note that I do not advocate writing such code, but I wouldn't be=0A=
> surprised if such code exists in the wild, but even more suprised if=0A=
> such code would be found in a Composer package.=0A=
=0A=
If such code does exist anywhere, I expect it to be extremely rare, given h=
ow=0A=
many PHP devs seem to be surprised that the alternative case syntax is even=
 possible.=0A=
Certainly this deprecation should be _far_ less impactful than the curly br=
ace=0A=
array/string access syntax that was successfully deprecated in PHP 7.4.=0A=
=0A=
Sincerely,=0A=
Theodore Brown=0A=
=0A=
[1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/19215=