note 105138 deleted from function.echo by googleguy
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Note Submitter: fire at dls dot net
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Pay attention to this part of the documentation:
echo() (unlike some other language constructs) does not behave like a function, so it cannot always
be used in the context of a function
I was trying to make certain that I was detecting errors and was trying code like this:
@alwaysFails() or echo('Surprise! It failed again');
This error was generated:
[29-Jul-2011 12:56:19] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in
/Applications/MAMP/test.php on line 12
Changing to die(), print() or a function I defined worked fine. Beware of this limitation of echo.