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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Pattern Matching
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Fri, Dec 5, 2025, at 9:10 AM, Zebulan wrote:
> Some typos I spotted in the RFC:
>
> "Structure patterns" -> "Object pattern" section: `color: green`=E2=80=
=8B=20
> should be `color: 'green'`=E2=80=8B (twice)
>
> "Future Scope" -> "Regex pattern" section: "idiation" should be "ideat=
ion"
>
> Also, to better justify the syntax for variable pinning, perhaps it=20
> might be worth mentioning that the caret character kinda looks like a=20
> pin? I'm not entirely sold on the syntax myself, but I think that=20
> visual association makes it easier to mentally parse.
>
> Finally, in the research document, I see there was some confusion abou=
t=20
> the C# syntax for variable binding. I think the idea is that the=20
> right-hand side looks like a variable declaration, so since `int foo`=E2=
=80=8B=20
> is how you define an integer variable named `foo`=E2=80=8B, therefore =
it makes=20
> sense to reuse the syntax in `bar is int foo`=E2=80=8B.

Thanks, typos fixed!

--Larry Garfield