Still loving how we turned codebabes into something constructive!
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> On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> To be fair, and to muddy-up the waters even more....
>>
>> echo 'echo'; // No parentheses needed....
>> echo('echo'); // .... but they can be used.
>> print('print'); // Seems common to see parentheses used here....
>> print 'print'; // .... but as a construct, they're not needed.
>> exit; // A language construct does not need parentheses....
>> exit(-1); // .... except in certain situations like this,
>> where data is passed.
>> continue; // However, there is yet another exception....
>> continue(2); // .... in that continue works with parentheses....
>> continue 2; // .... and without, but it is a control structure.
>> goto hell; // And yet, goto - another control structure - works....
>> goto(hell); // .... but only if you skip parentheses.
>>
>> --
>> </Daniel P. Brown>
>> Network Infrastructure Manager
>> http://www.php.net/
>
> Don't forget Ouch(); //... it returns "My head hurts."
>
> Also, with a function you can do this:
>
> $squareRoot = "sqrt";
> echo "The square root of 9 is " . $squareRoot(9); // a variable function
>
> But, you can't do the same with a construct:
>
> I want to go back to "I dunno" because that was simpler for me -- some things are just not meant to be learnt.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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