> One issue that was discussed a few weeks ago, and led to the current syntax,
> was too many variations within the switch syntax; of course, trying to do it
> all in one syntax is perpetuating that problem. However, I think Rowan has
> suggested a syntax that may be sufficiently self-documenting. To wit,
> independent of rustmatch (above):
>
> switch ($foo) {
> case 1: {
> Many statements here.
> }
> case 2: {
> Many statements here.
> }
> }
>
> The curly braces are already understood by most PHPers to mean "a block of
> statements", and so it's a logical jump in this case. As Rowan suggests, the
> {} imply a break. To keep it simple we should probably not allow mixing and
> matching in a single switch. Either list-style (break required) or {}-style
> (break implied).
>
> That handles break;
Sadly, it doesn't. That code is valid today:
<?php
$foo = 1;
switch ($foo) {
case 1: {
echo "1\n";
}
case 2: {
echo "2\n";
}
}
?>
Which outputs:
1
2
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