On October 2, 2001 01:22 am, Zak Greant wrote:
> Bug report 13505 got me thinking about the behavior of define() - if
> you try to define a constant name that is a reserved word, or an
> existing function or class name, no warning is generated.
>
> This could have been a conscious decision - a case where it was
> decided that some safety could be traded for a bit of extra speed. If
> it wasn't, then here is a patch to check that the constant name does
> not clash with a reserved work, function name or class name.
>
> I used an array of reserved words and a for loop to handle finding
> conflicting reserved words. Is there a better way to do this. AFAICT
> the other methods for handling reserved word conflicts are handled at
> the parser level. i.e. Trying to define 'function and (){}' generates
> a parser error.
>
> Anyhoo, perhaps someone could take a look at the patch? :)
...or not - let me fix the patch first. :)
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