Re: Re: "use strict" or similar in PHP?

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2009/2/28 Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 00:11 +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:32 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 00:02 +0600, 9el wrote:
> >>>>
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> >>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Robert Cummings <
> robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:28 -0700, LuKreme wrote:
> >>>>>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:12, Hans Schultz <h.schultz78@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hahahah,I was thinking the same thing
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>> The trouble is most people mean "compile a source file to an
> >>>>>> executable binary" when they sat compile. By this measure, PHP does
> >>>>>> not compile.
> >>>>> I add the following to the top of my PHP shell scripts:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    #!/usr/bin/php -qC
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then I do the following:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    chmod 775 script.php
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then I run it as follows:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    ./script.php
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Look... and executable binary :) Don't say it's not binary. All data
> on
> >>>>> a hard disk is binary (although I do know what you mean ;)
> >>>>
> >>>> Well you are running shell script style execution its not example of
> >>>> Compiled code or Binary
> >>>>
> >>>> The data in the file is ASCII or UTF text :)
> >>> Which are subsets of binary representation ;)
> >>>
> >>>> Compilation happens when its zendOptimized or OpCoded. Its then is
> converted
> >>>> into binary content file.
> >>> But one could probably quite easily set up a system whereby
> eAccelerator
> >>> or APC or Zend Optimizer cache bytecodes are torn from a file run
> >>> similarly. As I said in an earlier post... the line between the
> >>> definition of interpreted language and compiled language is quite
> blurry
> >>> these days.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Rob.
> >>> --
> >>> http://www.interjinn.com
> >>> Application and Templating Framework for PHP
> >>>
> >>>
> >> ASCII is only a subset of binary in a pedantic, literal sense. When
> >> people say binary file, they mean one that contains characters which are
> >> outside the normal display spectrum, such as chr(0), etc.
> >
> > And the argument that PHP is not compiled requires a certain level of
> > pedantry and it is still an incorrect argument since it most certainly
> > is compiled to an intermediary virtual machine code.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
>
> Still, in PHP $compile_time == $run_time.


I haven't been following this thread, but this caught my eye as being
completely wrong. There are distinct compile and execution phases when PHP
runs a script, and different rules apply to each. If you don't believe me
try defaulting the value of a class variable to the result of a function.

-Stuart

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