Re: Re: "use strict" or similar in PHP?

Robert Cummings wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 00:11 +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:32 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: >>> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 00:02 +0600, 9el wrote: >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Use FreeOpenSourceSoftwares, Stop piracy, Let the developers live. Get >>>> a Free CD of Ubuntu mailed to your door without any cost. Visit : >>>> www.ubuntu.com >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Robert Cummings >>>> <robert@interjinn.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:28 -0700, LuKreme wrote: >>>>>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:12, Hans Schultz <h.schultz78@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hahahah,I was thinking the same thing >>>>>>>> >>>>>> The trouble is most people mean "compile a source file to an >>>>>> executable binary" when they sat compile. By this measure, PHP does >>>>>> not compile. >>>>> I add the following to the top of my PHP shell scripts: >>>>> >>>>> #!/usr/bin/php -qC >>>>> >>>>> Then I do the following: >>>>> >>>>> chmod 775 script.php >>>>> >>>>> Then I run it as follows: >>>>> >>>>> ./script.php >>>>> >>>>> Look... and executable binary :) Don't say it's not binary. All data >>>>> on >>>>> a hard disk is binary (although I do know what you mean ;) >>>> >>>> Well you are running shell script style execution its not example of >>>> Compiled code or Binary >>>> >>>> The data in the file is ASCII or UTF text :) >>> Which are subsets of binary representation ;) >>> >>>> Compilation happens when its zendOptimized or OpCoded. Its then is converted >>>> into binary content file. >>> But one could probably quite easily set up a system whereby eAccelerator >>> or APC or Zend Optimizer cache bytecodes are torn from a file run >>> similarly. As I said in an earlier post... the line between the >>> definition of interpreted language and compiled language is quite blurry >>> these days. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Rob. >>> -- >>> http://www.interjinn.com >>> Application and Templating Framework for PHP >>> >>> >> ASCII is only a subset of binary in a pedantic, literal sense. When >> people say binary file, they mean one that contains characters which are >> outside the normal display spectrum, such as chr(0), etc. > > And the argument that PHP is not compiled requires a certain level of > pedantry and it is still an incorrect argument since it most certainly > is compiled to an intermediary virtual machine code. > > Cheers, > Rob. Still, in PHP $compile_time == $run_time. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com