From 762d0209c2940e8e53eaca0352a670f87621b82b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Michael Becker <cmb@php.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:20:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #72491: Case can take objects and arrays

Indeed, there are no restrictions on the type that a case expression evaluates to.
That's conforming to the PHP language specification:
<https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/PHP-5.6/spec/11-statements.md#the-switch-statement>

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@339487 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/control-structures/switch.xml | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/control-structures/switch.xml b/language/control-structures/switch.xml
index bed8699827..8d6d748413 100644
--- a/language/control-structures/switch.xml
+++ b/language/control-structures/switch.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ switch ($i) {
   <literal>switch</literal> statement executes line by line
   (actually, statement by statement).  In the beginning, no code is
   executed.  Only when a <literal>case</literal> statement is found
-  with a value that matches the value of the
+  whose expression evaluates to a value that matches the value of the
   <literal>switch</literal> expression does PHP begin to execute the
   statements.  PHP continues to execute the statements until the end
   of the <literal>switch</literal> block, or the first time it sees
@@ -196,12 +196,6 @@ switch ($i) {
    </programlisting>
   </informalexample>
  </para>
- <para>
-  The <literal>case</literal> expression may be any expression that
-  evaluates to a simple type, that is, <type>integer</type> or floating-point
-  numbers and <type>string</type>s.  <type>Array</type>s or <type>object</type>s cannot be used here unless
-  they are dereferenced to a simple type.
- </para>
  <para>
   The alternative syntax for control structures is supported with
   switches. For more information, see <link