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Thank you for your interest in PHP.

I've asked around and people with lot of experience in PHP asked me to file a bug, because they believe it is one.
It 's too easy to say it is not bug.

If they think it's a bug then they must not have as much experience with PHP as they claim.

"switch (X) case Y:" is equivalent to "if (X == Y)", so what you've written is like
  if ($i == ($i < 1)) {
  } else if ($i == ($i < 3)) {
  } etc
Obviously that's not what you wanted.

A switch doesn't make sense for that. It's most useful for dealing with specific values, like if you wanted different behavior for specific values of $i, and not for general conditional logic. Use if instead.

I would like that you are right. But I rewrote the switch with 'else if' the way you pretend the switch statement is working and I ended with a different result.


for ($i = 10; $i >= 0; --$i){
	if ($i == ($i < 1)){
		$msg = 'really';
	}else if ($i == ($i < 3)) {
		$msg = 'quite bad';
	}else if ($i == ($i < 5)) {
		$msg = 'pay attention';
	}else if ($i == ($i <= 9)){
		$msg = 'quite good';
	}else if ($i == ($i <= 10)){
		$msg = 'congrat';
	}else{
		$msg == 'Oops';
	}

	echo $i.' '.$msg . $sep;

}

for $i with value '04 it returns: '0 quite bad' where the switch statement returns '0 : Oops'
IMHO this is different.

You have a typo: $msg == 'Oops' instead of $msg = 'Oops'. You'll get the expected result if you fix this.