Sir Robin wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:22:59 -0400, sheldonlg <sheldonlg> wrote:
>
>> Gilles Ganault wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Is there a tool on Linux/FreeBSD that can parse a PHP script to make
>>> sure there's no compile-time issues?
>> You will never have a compile-time error with PHP since PHP is a script
>> and, hence, doesn't compile. Perhaps you mean run-time issues?
>
> As far as I understand PHP does in fact first compile the script to byte-code
> and then run it... Surely if the code has syntax errors it would result to
> compile time error, right?
>

No, Gilles is correct. PHP is not compiled. It is interpreted. A big
difference. And no, syntax errors are not considered compile-time errors.

Java, OTOH, is compiled to byte code.

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