Bug #40712 [Com]: return after "or"

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40712&edit=1 ID: 40712 Comment by: someone dot wanted dot to dot be dot unknown at gmail dot com Reported by: s dot j dot t dot mocking at students dot uu dot nl Summary: return after "or" Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: *Programming Data Structures Operating System: Linux (Debian Testing) PHP Version: 5.2.1 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: In 2015, I'd like to ask php developers team make this feature available. We can't write very clear code like > <?php > unlink() or return false; Instead of that we forced to use huge if statement: > <?php > if (!unlink()) > return false; I think community will be pleasant if we will see this feature implemented. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-04 04:09:31] iliaa@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-03 18:54:25] s dot j dot t dot mocking at students dot uu dot nl Description: ------------ "<statement> or die" works as expected, but "<statement> or return" results in syntax errors. Haven't found anything in the documentation which describes this behavior. If it's not a bug, it's very counterintuitive. Reproduce code: --------------- This works: function foo() { 0 or die("bla"); } This produces a syntax error: function bar() { 0 or return ("bla"); } Expected result: ---------------- I would expect bar() to return bla Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_RETURN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40712&edit=1