Re: switch case - to require the break statements seems strange to me

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:58 +0100, Luke wrote: > I wonder if this is a shared trait between C and PHP (since I understand PHP > is written in C) that the break; and the default: are placed for good > practice in all switch statements since they prevent memory leaks? Prevent memory leaks? WHAT? Even if that were an issue, implementation of switch in PHP does not look like a switch. Breaks are used to prevent fall through to the next case condition. Default is used as a catch-all... if you need a catch-all. It is perfectly valid for a case statement to fall through to the next case statement if the code can be shared. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP