Re: Discussion: making continue and break into an expression

> On Jan 25, 2024, at 12:16 PM, Robert Landers <landers.robert@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello internals, > > Now that throwing is an expression, it allows for some very concise > programming. What are your thoughts on making a break/continue into an > expression as well? Hi! I had similar idea to make break, continue and return be expressions instead of statements to simplify almost the same cases as Robert described above. Grammar corrections in the PR. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/17647 Ilija pointed to memory leaking problems as well. Thinking about Ilija memory leaking case: new Foo + return 1 I think we may have a workaround here, by allowing all of these constructions only available at some specific points: - <point> as the statement now - $cond ? <point> : <point>; - match ($v) { … => <point> } So it will deny such cases: - operand OPERATOR <point> (1 + return; $cond && break; etc) It may prevent memory leaking problems. Isn’t it? I’m writing RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_break_continue_expressions I’ll start a new discussion when it will be ready for it. ---------- Best regards, Dmitrii Derepko. @xepozz