Re: Little switch improvement: get the used variable

On 24 Sep 2014, at 22:17, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps rather than a magic function or constant, though, the switch statement could be > extended with an "as" argument, which would store the evaluated expression into a normal > variable, allowing nesting, and easier optimisation of the engine where the feature isn't used. > Thus you could write this: > > switch( some_expression() as $switch_value ){ > case 1: > do_something(); > break; > //... > default: > throw new Exception('Undefined input: ' . $switch_value); > break; > } Incredibly, some brave soul has gone back in time and already implemented this, when none of us was looking! switch($switch_value = some_expression()) { ... } -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/