Re: parsing break and continue statements

From: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:24:59 +0000
Subject: Re: parsing break and continue statements
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Hi Johannes,

Thanks for your reply :) What I meant was that why does the parser
still accept any expression after T_BREAK/CONTINUE and defer the error
check to zend_do_brk_cont? Isn't it clearer to only accept if the
expression following T_BREAK/CONTINUE is a positive integer (if there
is any expression at all)?

Kiyoto

2011/7/28 Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>:
> 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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