Is this a bug?

Hello guys, I've been stalking on the list for some time. Didn't have anything to report/talk, until now. I have a code like this, maybe you guys can reproduce it, with output buffering started: Echo 'something'; Echo 'another thing'; Echo 'something <br />'\; What happens is that ANYTHING that was echo'ed until that \, will not reach the buffer. Although, this should actually be a Parse Error, it isn't, it just echoes what was echoed after the god damned \. It took me two hours to find this typo in the code . Can you guys reproduce the error? I can actually give you a link to the server where this code runs.