RE: if/elseif being treated as if/if

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From: tedd

> At 2:23 PM -0400 9/24/10, Bob McConnell wrote:
>> 
>>A switch works when a single test can dispatch all possible branches.
If
>>you have a series of tests where each looks for a different subset of
>>conditions, you need an elseif.

> Not so, O'wise one.
> 
> This will work:
> 
> switch(1)
>     {
>     case $a > $b:
>     /* whatever
>     break;
> 
>     case $c == 1:
>     /* whatever
>     break;
> 
>     case $d == 'this works':
>     /* whatever
>     break;
>     }
> 
> Granted, it's not the normal way a switch works in some other 
> languages, but it does work in PHP.  :-)

That is just so wrong, it can't actually be taken seriously. There is
simply no justification for such broken logic.

Bob McConnell

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