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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Disallow multiple default blocks in a single
 switch statement
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Ferenc Kovacs wrote (on 13/08/2014):
> Btw. I've added a comment to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67757 as 
> I've found some really weird behavior for multiple defaults and I 
> think that it would be better to try to figure out and fix why do we 
> pick the last default in the problematic snippet instead of trying to 
> remove the multiple default support to get rid of the setup which can 
> make this bug to surface.

You're misinterpreting the behaviour of http://3v4l.org/r3poR

It is not selecting the first default, it just never needs to look for a 
default, because it has already found a matching case label.

If you supply a value which requires the default label to be selected, 
the last default label will be selected, as in all other examples to 
date: http://3v4l.org/lQ7WE