PHP 4.0 Bug #6653: Parser possibly broken. Doesn't respect comments.

From: bdonor@westnet.com Operating system: Redhat Linux PHP version: 4.0.2 PHP Bug Type: *General Issues Bug description: Parser possibly broken. Doesn't respect comments. I have a piece of code like this: <?php // <?=$Username?> Prints the username. // <?=$Password?> Prints the password. // <?=$AccountType?> Prints the account type. ?> I assumed that all of this would be considered a comment and not executed (this was so our webmaster could just look at the top of our pages and see how to output the values he needed). Unfortunately it prints this: Prints the username. // Prints the password. // Prints the account type. It treats the ?> inside the first comment as the end of a PHP block so the rest is just output to the screen (assuming it is HTML). Shouldn't the parser ignore this whole line? Forgive my ignorance if this is not how it is designed to work. Thank you, Tim Mattison bdonor@westnet.com