ID: 50068 User updated by: jachym dot tousek at gmail dot com Reported By: jachym dot tousek at gmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 5.3.1RC3 New Comment:
Well i've checked [http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.syntax.php] and also updated from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1RC3 before sending this report, but there is nothing about const name = 'value'; being different from define('name','value'); and i can not understand it even now. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-03 21:46:58] fel...@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-03 21:11:32] ksin...@php.net I think this behavior is by design. const expressions are evaluated at compile time. So only few operations are supported in a const expression and string concatenation is not one of those. I could repro this in PHP 5.2 (after putting it under a class). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-03 20:16:44] jachym dot tousek at gmail dot com Description: ------------ const is not working Reproduce code: --------------- <?php const ROOT_DIR = __DIR__ . '/..'; //parse error <?php define('ROOT_DIR',__DIR__ . '/..'); //works fine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50068&edit=1
