On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, at 1:49 PM, Mark Tomlin wrote:
> Please excuse the year long bump, but I was hoping to draw some more
> attention to the implicit "match (true)" case. I'm just a regular user of
> PHP, nothing too fancy, just one of the many, many people around the world
> who use PHP. When I first started using match statements, I thought it was
> a natural thing that an implicit "match (true)" would just work. I do hope
> that this makes it into PHP 8.1, as that seems like the most obvious next
> step here and it would be nice for it to make it into the very next release.
>
> That is all. Thank you very much to Ilija Tovilo for adding the match
> keyword to the language, and the whole PHP dev team for making this
> incredible language. PHP has given me a whole career, and I am deeply
> grateful to you all.
I wrote a separate small RFC for implicit-true match statements
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short-match). There didn't seem to be a great deal of interest,
though (https://externals.io/message/112496).
There's not much else to do with that RFC beyond bring it to a vote and let the chips fall
where they may. If folks think that's worth doing I can do so. It's not going to be able
to scope creep much beyond its current minimalism.
--Larry Garfield