Re: [Early Feedback] Pattern matching

> Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> hat am 20.06.2024 19:38 CEST geschrieben: > > > Hello, peoples. > > Ilija and I have been working on and off on an RFC for pattern matching since the early work on > Enumerations. A number of people have noticed and said they're looking forward to it. > > It's definitely not going to make it into 8.4, but we are looking for early feedback on > scoping the RFC. In short, there's a whole bunch of possible patterns that could be > implemented, and some of them we already have, but we want to get a sense of what scope the > zeitgeist would want in the "initial" RFC, which would be appropriate as secondary votes, > and which we should explicitly save-for-later. The goal is to not spend time on particular patterns > that will be contentious or not pass, and focus effort on fleshing out and polishing those that do > have a decent consensus. (And thereby, we hope, avoiding an RFC failing because enough people > dislike one little part of it.) > > To that end, we're looking for *very high level* feedback on this RFC: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-matching > > By "very high level," I mean, please, do not sweat specific syntax details right now. > That's a distraction. What we're asking right now is "which of these patterns > should we spend time sweating specific syntax details on in the coming weeks/months?" There > will be ample time for detail bikeshedding later, and we've identified a couple of areas where > we know for certain further syntax development will be needed because we both hate the current > syntax. :-) > > If you want to just read the Overview section for a survey of the possible patterns and our > current recommendations, you likely don't need to read the rest of the RFC at this point. You > can if you want, but again, please stay high-level. Our goal at the moment is to get enough > feedback to organize the different options into three groups: > > 1. Part of the RFC. > 2. Secondary votes in the RFC. > 3. Future Scope. > > So we know where to focus our efforts to bring it to a proper discussion.. > > Thank you all for your participation. > > -- > Larry Garfield > larry@garfieldtech.com Thank you! > $var is *; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below. maybe also consider: $var is mixed; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below. > // Array application, apply a pattern across an array > $foo is array<strings>; // All values in $foo must be strings > $foo is array<int|float>; // All values in $foo must be ints or floats +1 Regards Thomas