This. There are dozens of situations where, given instructions that simply don't make sense, PHP arbitrarily picks some half-baked behavior instead of giving an

This. There are dozens of situations where, given instructions that simply don't make sense, PHP arbitrarily picks some half-baked behavior instead of giving an error. So much so that I think the original poster is out of line for even considering tax planning in a language that wants to guess what you might have wanted to happen!