Req #62449 [Com]: Allow comma separated statements with (brace omitted) if statements

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62449&edit=1 ID: 62449 Comment by: phpmpan at mpan dot pl Reported by: andrew at phantom dot uk dot net Summary: Allow comma separated statements with (brace omitted) if statements Status: No Feedback Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues PHP Version: 5.4.4 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: if ($foo) echo 'bar', throw $foo; What should be the meaning of this code? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-29 14:08:20] johannes@php.net This leads to too many conflicts. For instance what should this code do: if (condition()) echo foo(), bar(); right now it prints the returned values from foo() and bar(). This can't be easily distinguished from your syntax. There are other similar cases. Such special case syntax also makes the language more complex with more special cases to mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-29 13:38:26] andrew at phantom dot uk dot net Description: ------------ Allow statements to be separated by commas in single line if statements (when omitting the braces) Test script: --------------- if ( isset($_GET['take_me_there']) ) header('location: /you_are_here.php'), exit; Expected result: ---------------- The client would be redirected to www.yoursite.com/you_are_here.php and the script would terminate execution. Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in /opt/lampp/htdocs/test.php on line 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62449&edit=1