Re: [PHP4BETA] Undocumented behavior of PHP 3.0

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > An undocumented behavior of PHP 3.0 was the fact that functions could be > declared inside control structures, such as if statements or other > functions. > > could be used so that you could declare foo() selectively. This > behavior was never documented, and pretty much goes against compilation. > > My question is, especially for the PHPlib guys - were you aware of this > behavior, and did you take advantage of it? If it was something many > people relied on, it might be worth it to consider implementing it in > Zend, even though it's not that easy (to say the least). > > Zeev > I dont think we used it anywhere. I have forwarded the above mail to Kris, so that he can't miss it on the list. Boris -- PHP 4 Beta