Bug #2653: Constants defined but not viewable

From: leon@clearink.com Operating system: Solaris PHP version: 3.0.12 PHP Bug Type: Parser error Bug description: Constants defined but not viewable <? function test() { if(defined("SOME_CONSTANT")) print("YES: "); print(SOME_CONSTANT); } define("SOME_CONSTANT", "the value of the constant"); test(); ?> This produces "YES: SOME_CONSTANT". I know I may be using constants in an unintended way, but I'd like to set a constant value sometime after I've defined a function that uses it. If this use is disallowed, I'm cool with that decision, but in that case, I'd like to see a parse error about an unrecognized token.