Tim Boring wrote:
> It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of
> itself is legal.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
Ah...
Well, the User Contributed notes provide some examples, and the manual
says you can use expressions, but nothing clarifies, for me, the
interaction betwee n $x and [expression] in:
switch ($x){
case [expression]: /* code */; break;
}
Is $x compared to the return value of [expression]?
I think what you need, then, is TRUE instead of $x.
... I think I'll go out on a limb and say that in MOST CASES it would be
Bad Style to have both $x and [expression]... I mean, it just gets too
confusing.
And if you expressions also have side-effects (incrementing, for example)
then it would be REALLY UGLY to do, like:
switch ($x){
case ($x++): /* code */ break;
case ($x): /* code */ break;
}
[shudder]
I pity the programmer that has to make sense of something as messy as that.
Maybe I'm just "missing" a really elegant example of how cool this would
be, but it seems rife for confusion to me.
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