Re: RFC: Strict comparisons

On 23 September 2016 23:14:37 BST, Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com> wrote: >On 23 September 2016 at 17:40, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >> I've been pondering an idea for ages of a generalised syntax for >switch to >> specify an operator to use, so you'd do something like this: > >That's technically possible already: > >function foobar($foo) >{ > switch (true) { > case $foo === '1': Yeah, switch(true) has always felt like an ugly hack to me. If I ever do write up my idea I'll cover this in the RFC, but the main problem is that you have to repeat the "$foo ===" part in every case, which means a reader can't assume all the cases are of the same form, and in many situations you're better off just using elseifs. A switch(true) makes more sense if you have a bunch of basically unrelated conditions with the same outcome, at which point a bunch of case labels is possibly easier to maintain than a big chain of boolean ors. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]