Doc #52722 [Opn->Bgs]: Don't teach beginners wrong stuff: Drop brackets around language constructs!

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52722&edit=1 ID: 52722 Updated by: markskilbeck@php.net Reported by: + at ni-po dot com Summary: Don't teach beginners wrong stuff: Drop brackets around language constructs! -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N New Comment: How is it *wrong* to use parentheses with language-constructs? I don't see that it is. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-28 14:15:35] + at ni-po dot com Actually the documentation already uses a notation without parenthesis for two language constructs: break and continue are written without parenthesis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-28 14:10:53] + at ni-po dot com Description: ------------ One thing that very much annoys me about the PHP documentation that it teaches beginners *wrong* stuff by writing all language constructs with parenthesis. Example: If called from within a function, the return() statement immediately ends execution of the current function [...] And it's like this everywhere! Admittedly all code examples use the correct syntax without parentheses. But writing return() everywhere else in the documentation makes it seem like the parentheses belong to the return statement and the syntax without parenthesis is only another way to write it. Thus I would strongly support the removal of this misleading notation. (This obviously doesn't apply only to the return statement, but to echo, print, include, include_once, require and require_once, too.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52722&edit=1