Re: Putting the match expression in constant expressions in PHP 8.0 or 8.1

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 2:22 AM tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > > The match expression can be thought of as a much more concise/readable > equivalent to chained ternary operators. > I'm proposing allowing matches in constant expressions when all parts of > the match are constant expressions. > > For example, these two class constants would have equivalent behaviors if > match expressions were allowed in constant expressions. > > ``` > class MyClass { > const CONFIG_SETTING = (APP_ENVIRONMENT == 'dev' || APP_ENVIRONMENT == > 'stage') ? 'development-config' : > (APP_ENVIRONMENT == 'prod' ? 'production-config' : null); > > const CONFIG_SETTING = match(APP_ENVIRONMENT) { > 'dev', 'stage' => 'development-config', > 'prod' => 'production-config', > default => null, > }; > } > ``` > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5951 implements the main > part of the > change. > Hi, thanks, just noticed that your examples should use === not ==. Regards -- Guilliam Xavier