Bug #79368 [NEW]: "Unexpected end of file" is not an acceptable error message

From: php4fan at gmail dot com Operating system: all PHP version: 7.4.4RC1 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:"Unexpected end of file" is not an acceptable error message Description: ------------ "Unexpected <whatever>" alone is NEVER an acceptable error message. You have to tell me what you were expecting instead of what you unexpectedly found, like: "Unexpected XXXX. YYY or ZZZ expected". If that is tricky because the spectrum of legal things that could be expected is too broad, then give a hint or some context: "Unexpected X in Y", "Unmatched <this>", "incomplete <that>"... This is especially egregious with "unexpected end of file", which is usually caused by very trivial errors such an unclosed parenthesis, bracket, brace... but becomes impossible to debug with such an uninformative error message. (Unexpected end of file at line 999999 meaning the error can anywhere in a million lines) It's unbelievable that to this day such an error message is still a thing. "Unexpected end of file in 'if' condition / function body / whatever". You can easily do better than just "unexpected end of file". -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79368&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79368&r=mysqlcfg