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Bug #1950 "$" not accepted in a class variable affectation
Submitted: 1999-08-03 12:41 UTC Modified: 1999-08-03 14:51 UTC
From: christophe dot massiot at mail dot dotcom dot fr Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (03/08/1999) OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-08-03 12:41 UTC] christophe dot massiot at mail dot dotcom dot fr 
The following script produces a parse error in PHP 4b2 :

class foo {
  var $bar = "foobar$";
}

I fully understand that the problem comes from the $ sign, and escaping it with a \
solves the problem, but this syntax worked with PHP 3, and simply doing
 $bar = "foobar$"; in the global scope works too.

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 [1999-08-03 14:51 UTC] andi at cvs dot php dot net 
This is a documented incompatibility with PHP 3.0.
You can't initialize class members with non-scalar expressions. This is because of the architecture of PHP 4.0 which is a step closer to compiling then PHP 3.0.
 
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