Re: switch() and default:

I don't think we should do anything about it. From day 1 we treated switch() like a loop as far as break/continue is concerned, mainly because we wanted break/continue to be consistent. You might find this odd but you actually have more power in PHP than in C as you can break out or continue from multiple loops. In my opinion this is definitely not something which should be changed at this point. BTW, I think we have a fix for the switch() thingy. I still have to look at it more closely before commiting though. Andi At 05:37 PM 10/8/2004 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:

Slightly OT, but while we are on the subject of switch not being C-ish, how about making it so that continue inside a switch block behaves the way it does in C? This C code snippet: while (1) {

     printf("top\n");
     switch (1) {
          case 1:
               continue;
     }
     printf("bork\n");

} will print out "top\n" repeatedly. The same code in PHP will print out "top\nbork\n" repeatedly. The get the same behaviour as the C code you need to use continue 2 instead. IMO, this is awful, and at first I thought it was a BC break, but it seems that the stock RHEL 4.3.2 version of PHP behaves the same way. What, if anything, should we do about this? --Wez.