From: Rowan Collins [mailto:[email protected]], Sent: Thursday, September
25, 2014 12:31 PM
>
> Sorry, I was talking about this bit:
>
>> Currently, switch always uses a "loose" comparison (==), so cannot
>> distinguish between "case 3" and "case 3.0". Occasionally, it would be
>> nice to switch on a strict comparison (===); but then I thought, why
>> stop there? What if you could use switch with any comparison operator?
>>
>> My idea is to give the switch() statement an optional "use" clause
>> (since that's an existing keyword) containing a single comparison operator
>
> See my earlier e-mail for examples and further details. Maybe I should
> have given it its own thread so it was more visible; the idea has been
> brewing for a while, I just thought this thread was a convenient place
> to mention.
Ah, okay, sorry.
What do you think about that:
$value = 3;
switch (true) {
case 3.0 === $value: break;
case 3 < $value: break;
case 3 > $value: break;
}
Christian
