On 20 November 2024 20:24:32 CET, Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov. 20, 2024 at 13:03 Derick Rethans wrote: > >> On 20 November 2024 19:26:12 CET, Theodore Brown wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:23 Kamil Tekiela wrote: >>> >>>> Do you know why the two exist? Was there any historical reason for this? >>>> >>>> From what cmb69 said[1], it seems like it may exist because of the >>>> implicit semicolon in ?>, and after I tested it, it seems to be true. >>>> Was there ever any other reason? >>> >>> I hope no one writes code like that where separate <?php ?> tags are >>> interleaved around each switch, case, break, and endswitch statement. >>> That's atrocious... >> >> All my PHP based templates for the xdebug.org site use this style. I don't >> think it's atrocious, and quite a bit nicer than the "new" syntax. >> >> It's also not a decades old choice (and not even by me). > >Hi Derick, > >I suppose whether or not that approach is ugly is somewhat subjective. Do the >xdebug.org templates using this style also rely on case statements being >followed by a semicolon instead of a colon? > >Sincerely, >Theodore Even if it did, it's not really relevant for the discussion.
I was mentioning this because removing the syntax would break code for no real gain. Cheers Derick
