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Doc Bug #41700 documentation not clear about "whatever() or return;"
Submitted: 2007-06-15 12:37 UTC Modified: 2007-08-27 22:45 UTC
From: looris at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Irrilevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-06-15 12:37 UTC] looris at gmail dot com 
Description:
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I came across this: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40712

here's what iliaa wrote:

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Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not

a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at 
http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

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now, I guess that you can't do "..or return.." because return isn't a function, ok, but, reading the documentation, nothing related to this sort of thing is ever mentioned in these related articles:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.return.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.returning-values.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.functions.php

Maybe this thing is explained somewhere in the docs, but it seems a little awkward to me that it doesn't appear on none of these related articles. I think this kind of thing does really need to be mentioned somewhere in these places. If this is not a documentation bug, i don't know what is.

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 [2007-06-15 12:58 UTC] smlerman at gmail dot com 
From http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.return.php:
"...the return() statement..."

Return is a statement, not a function or expression. It has to appear on its own, not as part of some other statement.
 [2007-08-17 02:08 UTC] vrana@php.net 
"return" is not a function as documented in "return" documentation.
 [2007-08-27 22:45 UTC] looris at gmail dot com 
so what? read again what I wrote.
 
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