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thekid opened this issue Mar 24, 2024 · 0 comments

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thekid commented Mar 24, 2024

Rough draft:

// Type checks, already possible today
$value is int;

// Literal checks
$value is 1;

// Omitting values
$value is [, $second];

// Deconstruction 
$value is Person(name: $name);

See also:

Pattern matching iluuu1994/php-src#102
Pattern matching Kotlin/KEEP#213
https://openjdk.org/jeps/441 (including "Future work" section)

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