Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20467 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40752 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 00:36:16 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40737 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 00:36:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 00:36:16 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([204.11.219.139:56527] helo=colo.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 46/5E-56276-FFDA7834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:36:16 -0500 Received: from [192.168.200.106] (c-24-6-5-134.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.5.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jAQ0aCDN008799 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:36:13 -0800 Message-ID: <4387ADFD.9060508@lerdorf.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:36:13 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ian P. Christian" CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <7.0.0.16.2.20051124161240.0573e640@zend.com> <43878C41.4030205@gmail.com> <43878D08.4020105@lerdorf.com> <200511260026.22191.pookey@pookey.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200511260026.22191.pookey@pookey.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Ian P. Christian wrote: > On Friday 25 November 2005 22:15, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> It is completely inconsistent >> with the rest of PHP. > > like how its case sensitive except when it's not.... and how array functions > start array_, except when they don't. if (): is valid, while(): is valid, > but you can't do it with switch, because.. well, it's white space sensitive. I must be missing something. How is switch whitespace sensitive? This works fine: switch(1):case 1:echo'foo';break;endswitch; -Rasmus