Same happens with many other language constructs.

Perhaps so, but every single item that has "is a language construct" or "but a language construct" on the php.net site is reachable with the url short form.  That list is part of:

echo, print, die, exit, return, array, list, empty, isset, unset, include, include_once, require, require_once, throw, catch

I included the additional throw, catch since some other web site stated that they were language constructs.  Language constructs, as far as I could find, are not discussed on the PHP website at all except to say that a language construct cannot be passed as a (callback) function, or might not need parentheses.  As far as almost any user is concerned for documentation lookup purposes, any distinction should be irrelevant.

Furthermore, I would suggest that the other language constructs/keywords missing from such short form lookup should be upgraded.  The idea is to make the excellent PHP documentation even more accessible.

Csaba

Fact is that noone compiled an exhaustive list of missing aliases. Look into php.net/source.php?url=/error.php (search for $uri_aliases), some language constructs are aliased, some are not. We would appreciate if you could compile a list.

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