On: PHP doesn't need 'finally'

[jrockway]

It compiles with "use strict", and it's not abuse.

The reason you can't compile it is because guard is not defined, nor are cwd, cleanup, and the other placeholder functions I used. When you are relying on the parser to add parens for you (and let you omit "sub"), you have to have the function in scope. Compare:

    use strict;
    sub foo { bar }

And

    use strict;
    sub bar;
    sub foo { bar };

[bad_user → jrockway]

"abuse" was not the word I was looking for: I meant you're using Perl's syntactic freedom, and this trick does not work with PHP.