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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CLI php -r requires final ;
From: edink@emini.dk (Edin Kadribasic)

php -r is equivalent of calling eval() in php code. See 
http://php.net/eval for details.

Edin


Richard Lynch wrote:
> 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.
>