> they are nearly syntactically identical to executable code.

"nearly" is the keyword there. They lack the ending semi-colon. Sure,
this might mean PHP has to actually use an abstract syntax tree, but
that's long overdue in my opinion. I know others disagree. This is
only tangentially related, so I won't say more.

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