On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 16:10 -0700, Kiyoto Tamura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the PHP internals, and I was just looking through the code
> related to parsing break/continue statements. It looks that as of PHP
> 5.4, Zend/zend_language_parser.y accepts both "T_BREAK expr" and
> "T_CONTINUE expr" and check to make sure "expr" is a positive integer
> in the function zend_do_brk_cont. Doesn't it make more sense to
> replace "T_BREAK expr" with  "T_BREAK <positive integer>" (the same
> goes for the continue statement)?

T_BREAK expr  allows things like

   $foo = rand(...);
   break $foo;

but we've dropped that for performance reasons in 5.4.

johannes

> Thanks in advance!
> 
> kiyoto
> 



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