On 17 Nov 2012 at 01:33, Iñigo Medina <imedina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Jim Giner wrote:
>> Maybe I'm way out of touch, but when I look at php.net for the syntax of the
>> switch statement I see:
>> switch($var){
>> case (value):
>> (do something)
>> case (other value):
>> (do something else)
>> }
>>
>> IN your example, you are using a switch syntax that is nothing like that. I
>> think that your "case " statements are not actually evaluating the value of
>> $count, but are themselves evaluating to a true value that has nothing to do
>> with $count.
>
> That `switch` is evaluating to true each case. It's an alternative of using
> if-elseif structure.
It may be an alternative, but it breaks the principle of least surprise. If I'm looking through someone's code, and I see a switch, I expect to see it used as Jim described. If the writer needs a different type of logic to make a decision, that is what the cascaded if-elseif-elseif construct is for, when the tests don't fall into a simple set-of-values choice.
The job of a programmer is not to be "clever" with a view to impress those who follow, but to achieve the desired outcome while at the same time making life easy for those who follow.
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Cheers -- Tim
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