Re: Deprecate alternate switch case syntax?

On Wed, Nov. 20, 2024 at 13:03 Derick Rethans wrote: > On 20 November 2024 19:26:12 CET, Theodore Brown wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:23 Kamil Tekiela wrote: >> >>> Do you know why the two exist? Was there any historical reason for this? >>> >>> From what cmb69 said[1], it seems like it may exist because of the >>> implicit semicolon in ?>, and after I tested it, it seems to be true. >>> Was there ever any other reason? >> >> I hope no one writes code like that where separate <?php ?> tags are interleaved >> around each switch, case, break, and endswitch statement. That's atrocious... > > All my PHP based templates for the xdebug.org site use this style. I don't think it's > atrocious, and quite a bit nicer than the "new" syntax. > > It's also not a decades old choice (and not even by me). Hi Derick, I suppose whether or not that approach is ugly is somewhat subjective. Do the xdebug.org templates using this style also rely on case statements being followed by a semicolon instead of a colon? Sincerely, Theodore