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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:42:19 +0100
To: Lars Strojny <lars@strojny.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Little switch improvement: get the used variable
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 26 September 2014 18:41:02 GMT+01:00, Lars Strojny <lars@strojny.net> wrote:
>That is exactly my point: instead of "optimising" the switch/case
>construct which is good enough as if/elseif/else replacement I feel our
>time would be better spent on thinking of polymorphism, guards and
>pattern matching.

That sounds a lot like the old "why are you adding features rather than fixing bugs" argument. There are any number of features we *could* add, but it's not like we have to pick one at a time.