RE: [PHP] or return problem

From: Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:44:35 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] or return problem
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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:40, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > How can you possibly test, in a conditional, the return value of the > > return statement itself when it has no value to return and even causes > > the current scope to exit IMMEDIATELY?? > > Per the logic, if it returns immediately, isn't the value irrelevant? That > is, assuming that the truth of the first clause short-circuits evaluation of > the second one. Depends on how the return statement is processed since it obviously has special treatment. But yes, that would be a bug probably if indeed the the return expression should never be evaluated due to the left operand evaluating to true. Nonetheless, it's a dirty style for a return IMHO since if the left operand does evaluate to false then the conditional is undefined as far as I can tell. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'

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