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Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 20:02:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to contribute for PHP Internals
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Bonsoir,

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:51 -0500, Patrick Serru wrote:
>       Indeed, I was looking for some definition of PHP as language. I'm not 
> a specialist, but HOBBIST well interested. I try to build a parser in PHP, 
> and parsing PHP first! Then, I was just needing more material related to 
> the language it self.

I think the language syntax definition is more a part r the genaral
documentation and too specific for a "getting started with internals"
document. The language definition is a small part of PHP ...

>       For instance, here is my last interogation: I noted that a class, 
> defined inside a function does not has a global scope, and if I well 
> remember, this does not fit with my readings... Is it a bug, or have I a 
> bad memory ?


$ php -nr 'function declare_class() { class Foo {} } declare_class(); var_dump(new Foo());'
object(Foo)#1 (0) {
}

Seems to work, or didn't I understand your problem?

johannes