Doc #73227 [Com]: Doccumentation unclarity.

From:	carteeg at gmail dot com	Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 2016 13:35:51 +0000
Subject:	Doc #73227 [Com]: Doccumentation unclarity.
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Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73227&edit=1 ID: 73227 Comment by: carteeg at gmail dot com Reported by: mev5me at yandex dot ru Summary: Doccumentation unclarity. Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Ubuntu PHP Version: 7.1.0RC3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The documentation is correct. The phrase "need not" means "do not need to". So "Functions need not be defined before they are referenced." means "Functions do not need to be defined before they are referenced." Example 2 is showing this explicitly by having the reference occur before the definition. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-02 11:04:27] mev5me at yandex dot ru Description: ------------ May be my English is not perfect, but

http://php.net/manual/en/functions.user-defined.php
says: "Functions need not be defined before they are referenced". And than *Example #2*
example shows how function being used BEFORE define (bar()`). Isn't in weird or unclear?



function myF () {...} - is it defining?

myF(); - is it reference?


Nowhere says it is possible, because interpreter reads .php files first and than execute.

PHP 7 documentation is missing too.  




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