Talk:PHP syntax and semantics

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Merge back to PHP or re-write

Actually there doesn't seem to be anything worth and necessary to merge back. The main article is more up to date. --Pjacobi (talk) 20:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other programming languages (like Java) have most of their information in one page. Wouldn't it make sense to place all the info in this page in a 'Syntax' header on the PHP page? Exe89

Criticism \ Controversy section?

PHP is widely criticized about its markup and lack of standards. Shouldn't this be covered somewhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.112.59.185 (talk) 17:07, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statement Language?

The style and general writing standards of this article are no doubt among the least professional and absolute worst I have ever encountered on Wikipedia. The following sentence is representative:

   "PHP is a statement language, with each statement terminated by semicolon (";"). "

The term "statement Language" is obviously a frivolous invention by the writer, who tries to pass it off as a recognized and respected computer science term, even giving it a hyperlink cross reference to a Wikipedia article of the same title, which -- surprise! -- doesn't exist, of course.

Another example:

   Both double-quoted ("") and heredoc strings allow the ability to embed a variable's value into the string.

Allow the ability? And, are variable values embedded in strings, or did you mean interpolated, perhaps?

As a professional Perl programmer with virtually no knowledge of PHP, I thought I'd read this article to acquire an overview of that language. But if this is the best the PHP community can do, clearly I've made the right choice to stick with Perl all these years.

Toddcs (talk) 15:35, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]