Re: [RFC] Deprecate and remove continue targeting switch

On 26/06/2018 20:28, niel wrote:

On 24/06/18 17:16, Nikita Popov wrote:

Hi internals, Another small deprecation for your consideration... https://wiki.php.net/rfc/continue_on_switch_deprecation Regards, Nikita

IMO the proposed illustrations will lead to as much, if not more, WTF from other language users as current behaviour. Why? Because the programmer still has to account for the 'switch' in how continue works. This will just cause a BC problem for older code without adding anything for people new to PHP. My suggestion, is to make the break (no pun intended) be clean. Deprecate use of continue from usage to escape switch completely in next PHP, then remove that functionality in PHP 8.

Do you mean that this code would be valid in both PHP 7 and PHP 8, but mean different things? while($outer) {

    while($inner) {
        switch($foo) {
            case 1:
                continue 2;
        }
    }

} If so, I think that would be even more confusing. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]