Re: assert()

From:	Yasuo Ohgaki	Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:30:14 +0000
Subject:	Re: assert()
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Thies C. Arntzen wrote:

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 10:31:39AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
We can write assert code as a function, ========== [yohgaki@dev DEV]$ php <?php function t() { return false; } assert('t();'); ?> PHP Warning: Assertion "t();" failed in - on line 7 ========== but we cannot write assert code as string. ========== [yohgaki@dev DEV]$ php <?php assert('if (1) return false;'); ?> PHP Parse error: parse error in -(2) : assert code on line 1 ========== Current assert() behavior is the same as passing function name as parameter. Any reason why? Shouldn't it behave like eval()? or make assert() accept a function.
    hmm, it actually uses zend_eval_string(). not sure what's
    wrong. have no time to dig into this though.

This behavior should be a bug, then. It sounds like a scripting engine problem. -- Yasuo Ohgaki