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Subject: CLI php -r requires final ;
From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch")

This is such minutiae, but I needed a break...

The docs say final ?> is not needed, and final ; is not needed:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php

It does not address what happens if BOTH are missing, however.

It would seem that with both missing...

-bash-2.05b$ cat temp.php
<?php
        echo 'hello'
-bash-2.05b$
php -q temp.php

you get a syntax error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end, expecting ',' or ';'

This is fine, of course.

We'll call it a feature, even, I guess.

But, for me, it feels decidedly "odd" when I do:

php -r "echo 'hello'"

and get:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end, expecting ',' or ';'

I mean, for some reason, I just expected that the "optional"
semi-colon at the end was, well, optional...

I mean, -r runs the code without me needing to add <?php and ?>

It's not like I'm relying on the optional ?> at the end of a file
feature.

It's a different animal.

php -r is "adding in" both <?php and ?> for me, in my mind, at least.

I just sort of expected that the -r getting rid of <?php and ?> didn't
"count" against the ?> OR ; being optional, and I figured the ; was
still optional.

Am I being too petty? :-^

I'm not filing this as bug report without some feedback, that's for sure!

Actually, I'm just interested to see how others think about this.

I don't even like leaving off ?> nor ; in PHP source code.  I think
it's just a sign of sloppy coding -- even if it does mean that I can't
get that perfectly-align HTML coming out.

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