PHP 4.0 Bug #8114: case can be terminated by ; as well as : when writing switch statements.

From: juhl@eisenstein.dk Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: case can be terminated by ; as well as : when writing switch statements. When writing switch statements the documentation specifies that the different case statements should be terminated by : (colon), but a ; (semicolon) is also accepted. The code below writes 'Hello world' to the client. I believe it should instead have produced a parse error on the case 'bar'; line. $foo = "bar"; switch ($foo) { case 'bar'; echo 'Hello world\n'; break; default: echo 'Hit the default\n'; break; } Best regards, Jesper Juhl juhl@eisenstein.dk -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8114&edit=1