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Bug #54523 echo fatal error
Submitted: 2011-04-13 16:00 UTC Modified: 2013-12-06 07:24 UTC
From: kiminoumm at hotmail dot fr Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.17 OS: WIN NT5.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-04-13 16:00 UTC] kiminoumm at hotmail dot fr 
Description:
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I just migrate my script to an old php version (4.3.5) to an newest, and now i get an fatal error when i use the echo function without parameter

Test script:
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echo ;

Expected result:
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a blank thing

Actual result:
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an Fatal error

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 [2011-04-13 16:37 UTC] johannes@php.net 
Not sure when/why this broke. You're mentioning 5.2, so it can't be our change from flex to re2c for the scanner. Anyways:

I can see that there are cases where allowing this makes sense. simple example might be a templating system generating code, something like this:

fwrite($file, 'echo '.implode(', ', $texts).';');

On the other hand I don't like having this case in the language ...
 [2013-12-06 07:24 UTC] mike@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 [2013-12-06 07:24 UTC] mike@php.net 
If our semantics were bash-like, I'd see it's usefulness.
 [2013-12-06 16:22 UTC] tyrael@php.net 
for the record, this was changed in 5.0:
http://3v4l.org/5HAoe
 
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