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Doc Bug #69308 return description misleading
Submitted: 2015-03-26 14:06 UTC Modified: 2015-12-18 21:32 UTC
From: cmb@php.net Assigned: tpunt (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: *
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 [2015-03-26 14:06 UTC] cmb@php.net
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.return
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The following description is misleading:

| return returns program control to the calling module. Execution
| resumes at the statement following the called module's invocation.

Consider a compound expression, where return will not cause
execution to resume with the next *statement*, but rather with the
next (not necessarily lexically, but rather in order of evaluation
precedence) *expression*:

  echo my_trim('hello') . my_trim('world');



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 [2015-12-18 21:31 UTC] tpunt@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of tpunt
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=338310
Log: Resolve doc bug #69308
 [2015-12-18 21:31 UTC] tpunt@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: tpunt
 [2015-12-18 21:32 UTC] tpunt@php.net
I've resolved this by changing "statement" to "expression", since control of execution will always be passed back into an expression context:
"Execution resumes at the expression following the called module's invocation."

Commit: https://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=338310
 [2015-12-18 21:32 UTC] tpunt@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 
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