Doc #72468 [Opn]: heredoc seem actually supported in static declarations

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72468&edit=1 ID: 72468 User updated by: info at developiu dot it Reported by: info at developiu dot it Summary: heredoc seem actually supported in static declarations Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: centos linux PHP Version: 7.0.7 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I noticed only now that also the previous declaration is accepted by my version of php, namely the following one: public $var1 = 'hello ' . 'world'; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-06-22 09:14:26] info at developiu dot it Description: ------------ This bug is similar to bug #70227, but it is related to a different page. the page at url http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.properties.php states the following (see Example #1 property declarations): "Unlike heredocs, nowdocs can be used in any static data context, including property declarations." This seem to imply that that heredocs are not allowed in static context but allowed in non static context, but the write proably meant that they always disallowed, as explicitated by the previous example, where the definition of $var2 is marked as invalid even if it is not static. Actually heredocs can be used to define properties, as the script below shows (with the same syntax marked as invalid in the example given in the documentation abow the "incriminated" phrase). If you run it you'll see no error. BTW: is there a way for me to propose a patch to some file in order to minimize your work on fixing these sort of bugs? Test script: --------------- <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); class SimpleClass { public $var2 = <<<EOD hello world EOD; } $a=new SimpleClass(); echo $a->var2; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72468&edit=1