Pierre Joye schreef:
On Jan 30, 2008 3:00 PM, Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 30.01.2008 16:41, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
The final nowdoc patches are attached.
I'm going to commit them on Thursday in case of no objections.
So the current syntax is
$var = <<<'TEXT'
text
'TEXT';
am I right?
I believe it's far from readable and clear and I suggest not to add it until
we have a better syntax.
What do you suggest? :)
someone suggested this:
$s = <<<~TEXT
foo bar qux
TEXT;
which does seem more readable and/or less confusing than quoting the delimter.
or maybe use an unbalanced single quote:
$s = <<<'TEXT
foo bar qux
TEXT;
which could have a complement of
$s = <<<"TEXT
foo bar qux
TEXT;
the '"' being optional and having the same meaning as heredoc syntax as it
stands now.
having an unbalanced quote would leave less room for someone to ask why a
string literal
was used (because it's not a string literal without the second quote),
additionally
using single/double quote identifiers likens the here* syntax to the behaviour
of
single and double quoted strings with regard to variable interpolation.
just a thought.
Also looking at the discussion, I can see only 6 people involved (including
Dmitry),
which most likely means nobody is really interested in that "nowdoc" and this is
yet another reason not to add it.
P.S. I personally see no need in such thing at all.
I'm pretty sure there is more people interested. I find nowdoc very
handy and is the perfect complement to heredoc.
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