[DOC-BUGS] Doc #81547 [Com]: print documentation section Documentation is contradictory

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81547&edit=1

 ID:                 81547
 Comment by:         dgme dot life at gmail dot com
 Reported by:        ddpm at liscovius dot de
 Summary:            print documentation section Documentation is
                     contradictory
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Documentation Problem
 Package:            Documentation problem
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

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[2021-11-03 13:08:37] [email protected]

To my knowledge, DocBook has no special support for language
constructs (except maybe for EBNF, but that's a different story);
this is why our existing documentation for language constructs[1]
is suboptimal.  For print, and other language constructs which are
somewhat function-like, it makes probably still sense to document
these as functions.  If we want to get rid of the parentheses in
the synopses, this could be accomplished by adding some attribute
and to adapt PhD[2] accordingly.  However, it is not clear what to
do with the return values, and whether it's worth working on this
at all.

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.control-structures.php>
[2] <https://github.com/php/phd>

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[2021-10-20 19:03:34] ddpm at liscovius dot de

Description:
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Synopsis on https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php shows:

print(string $expression): int

But the description text says: 

"print is not a function but a language construct. Its argument is the expression following the print keyword, and is not delimited by parentheses."

I see that the problem lies in the way the documentation is built. How should the synopsis be for such **language construct**?

Expected result:
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I do not know (yet).

Actual result:
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print(string $expression): int


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