Re: Codebabes: PHP

On 14-04-29 07:28 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote:

On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote:

    To be fair, and to muddy-up the waters even more....

        echo 'echo'; // No parentheses needed....
        echo('echo'); // .... but they can be used.
        print('print'); // Seems common to see parentheses used here....
        print 'print'; // .... but as a construct, they're not needed.
        exit; // A language construct does not need parentheses....
        exit(-1); // .... except in certain situations like this,

where data is passed.

        continue; // However, there is yet another exception....
        continue(2); // .... in that continue works with parentheses....
        continue 2; // .... and without, but it is a control structure.
        goto hell; // And yet, goto - another control structure - works....
        goto(hell); // .... but only if you skip parentheses.

-- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/

Don't forget Ouch(); //... it returns "My head hurts." Also, with a function you can do this: $squareRoot = "sqrt"; echo "The square root of 9 is " . $squareRoot(9); // a variable function But, you can't do the same with a construct:

But these days you can get pretty damn close: <?php

    $echo = function( $string ){ echo $string };
    $echo( "I do indeed love true anonymous functions :)" );

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