> Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> hat am 20.06.2024 19:38 CEST > geschrieben: > > > Hello, peoples. > > Ilija and I have been working on and off on an RFC for pattern matching since > the early work on Enumerations. A number of people have noticed and said > they're looking forward to it. > > It's definitely not going to make it into 8.4, but we are looking for early > feedback on scoping the RFC. In short, there's a whole bunch of possible > patterns that could be implemented, and some of them we already have, but we > want to get a sense of what scope the zeitgeist would want in the "initial" > RFC, which would be appropriate as secondary votes, and which we should > explicitly save-for-later. The goal is to not spend time on particular > patterns that will be contentious or not pass, and focus effort on fleshing > out and polishing those that do have a decent consensus. (And thereby, we > hope, avoiding an RFC failing because enough people dislike one little part > of it.) > > To that end, we're looking for *very high level* feedback on this RFC: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-matching > > By "very high level," I mean, please, do not sweat specific syntax details > right now. That's a distraction. What we're asking right now is "which of > these patterns should we spend time sweating specific syntax details on in > the coming weeks/months?" There will be ample time for detail bikeshedding > later, and we've identified a couple of areas where we know for certain > further syntax development will be needed because we both hate the current > syntax. :-) > > If you want to just read the Overview section for a survey of the possible > patterns and our current recommendations, you likely don't need to read the > rest of the RFC at this point. You can if you want, but again, please stay > high-level. Our goal at the moment is to get enough feedback to organize the > different options into three groups: > > 1. Part of the RFC. > 2. Secondary votes in the RFC. > 3. Future Scope. > > So we know where to focus our efforts to bring it to a proper discussion. > > Thank you all for your participation. > > -- > Larry Garfield > la...@garfieldtech.com
Thank you! > $var is *; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below. maybe also consider: $var is mixed; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below. > // Array application, apply a pattern across an array > $foo is array<strings>; // All values in $foo must be strings > $foo is array<int|float>; // All values in $foo must be ints or floats +1 Regards Thomas
