Stuart wrote: > 2009/3/1 Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Stuart wrote: >>> 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: >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> Use FreeOpenSourceSoftwares, Stop piracy, Let the developers live. >> Get >>>>>>>> a Free CD of Ubuntu mailed to your door without any cost. Visit : >>>>>>>> www.ubuntu.com >>>>>>>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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 >>> >> Rob, I wasn't talking about time. I was talking about they're pretty >> much the same as in when they execute. >> >> Stuart, >> >> Great, then show the OP how he can enforce strict error checking at >> compile time and halt compilation and runtime altogether. > > > Like I said I haven't been following this thread so have no idea what the > original question was. I was just pointing out that your assertion > that $compile_time == $run_time is incorrect. > > As far as error checking goes the PHP engine performs syntactical checks > during compile time but due to the highly flexible nature of the language > it's not possible to do most error checking until runtime. > > -Stuart > Unfortuantely, my post was in reference to the OP's question and related to other posts in the thread. :-) -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
