Hi Björn >> I'd like to announce the match expression v2 RFC: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/match_expression_v2
> Well one could argue that when working with legacy code containing > switch statements where one gradually migrates to match, it might be > easier to have the same separator, i.e. ":". I think that's somewhat of a moot point. The syntax of match is quite different (match instead of switch, no case, no break, colon instead of case, comma instead of semicolon, trailing semicolon). Just making one of those the same doesn't make a meaningful difference for ease of migration. > Is the proposed => separator inspired by Rust or Scala? Checked what > other languages used and for switch it's ":" of course. So one might > argue that to align with match statements in other languages "=>" is > a good choice, but OTOH if ones sees match as an enhanced switch, > having ":" as a separator is another alternative. Since nobody else asked for it, just for you I compiled a list of other languages :) https://gist.github.com/iluuu1994/11ac292cf7daca8162798d08db219cd5 The conclusion: Most languages also use some form of arrow. It makes sense to me to stay consistent with those languages. Ilija -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
