#50411 [NEW]: less important: global and static in global scope

From: dkr at mindwerk dot de Operating system: linux 2.6.21 PHP version: 5.2.11 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: less important: global and static in global scope Description: ------------ Hi! Either its some documentation problem or a error reporting problem, but "static" and "global" can be used in the global scope, and this makes no sense? Or is it some kind of: make statics or globalize variables in a file included in a function in another file? if so, close this bugreport and eventually make some documentation for that... :) thx and greets Reproduce code: --------------- <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); # The php doc says "A static variable exists only in a local function scope" # but this does not fail in any way: static $test = 1; echo("test for static successfull\n"); # As global does only makes sense within the function, this should fail # also with some error or something: global $test2; echo("test2 for global successfull\n"); Expected result: ---------------- Any error message like "The keyword static|global is not allowed in global scope" Actual result: -------------- test for static successfull test2 for global successfull -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50411&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50411&r=mysqlcfg