Title: compat.php issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# compat.php issues

 *  [mach2racer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mach2racer/)
 * (@mach2racer)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatphp-issues/)
 * having troubles updating to 2.7.1 i get this message
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ‘(‘ in /hermes/bosweb/
   web171/b1713/ipw.jakerobi/public_html/jakesworld/wp-includes/compat.php on line
   19

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 * Last reply from: [mach2racer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mach2racer/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatphp-issues/)
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