So far everyone is telling me that it won't work, but no one is telling me why. (btw I did search extensively for the answer to this question but so far have found nothing). Robert, could you be more specific in your reference to the http://www.php.net documentation? I see nothing on the basic syntax page that addresses this.
Pat Carmody On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Robert Cummings wrote: >On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:02, Pat Carmody wrote: >> >> >> Calling the following retor_test() function causes a "Parse error: parse >> error, unexpected T_RETURN" message when the script is run: >> >> function istrue() { >> return true; >> } >> function retor_test() { >> istrue() or return( "False" ); >> return "True"; >> } >> >> The problem is with the "or return" part. Any ideas why? I realize that >> I could use an if statement instead, but I'm a lazy, lazy man and I don't >> want to. > >Your laziness is causing you problems. Please check out ALL of the >documenation located at http://www.php.net since this is covered under >basic syntax and we don't cater to lazy people (at the very least *I* >don't cater to lazy people). > >Cheers, >Rob. >-- >.------------------------------------------------------------. >| InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | >:------------------------------------------------------------: >| An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | >| a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | >| such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | >| also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | >| creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | >`------------------------------------------------------------' > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php