From:             ultimateeffect at hotmail dot com
Operating system: Ubuntu 13.04
PHP version:      5.4.17
Package:          *General Issues
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:Incomprehensible error message while producing a syntax error

Description:
------------
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM - No one has addressed this yet even though this has
been 
laughed at by rails developers for some time already so I am creating a
ticket.

Thank you.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Test script:
---------------
<?php
::

Expected result:
----------------
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '::' (T_DOUBLE_COLON) in ...

Actual result:
--------------
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '::' (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM) in ...

-- 
Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65456&edit=1
-- 
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4):   
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=trysnapshot54
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3):   
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=trysnapshot53
Try a snapshot (trunk):     
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=trysnapshottrunk
Fixed in SVN:               https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=fixed
Fixed in release:           https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:             https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:      https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=needscript
Try newer version:          https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:        https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=support
Expected behavior:          https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=notwrong
Not enough info:            
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:            
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:           https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=php4
Daylight Savings:           https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=dst
IIS Stability:              https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:            https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=float
No Zend Extensions:         https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:  https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=65456&r=mysqlcfg

Reply via email to