Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-05 Thread M. Sokolewicz
thank god PHP doesn't have qq// and q//, it's one of the few things I can't stand in Perl (along with the 100 different ways of calling the same variable (@var, $var, %var, etc.). Just use a standard delimiter with standard, normal, quotes. It's really not that hard. Anthony Ettinger wrote:

Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-05 Thread Anthony Ettinger
doesn't php have something like qq// and q// in perl? qq = double quote interpolation q = single quote (no interpolation) the delimiteer "/" can be any character you'd like. or, like stated previously, use a heredoc. or smarty-template engine. On 5/4/06, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, May 4, 2006 1:53 pm, John Hicks wrote: > Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close > string delimiters? Because then you need to escape the closing character anyway, to have it as data, so what did you just gain, really? Not to mention that all the "good" matching

Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
Surely you can't then interpolate the variables? On 04/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can simplify usi single instead double quotes: echo ' view delete '; :) -afan > John Wells wrote: >> Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of >> tho

Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-04 Thread afan
You can simplify usi single instead double quotes: echo ' view delete '; :) -afan > John Wells wrote: >> Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of >> those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps >> you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative

Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
You can: list item for example On 04/05/06, John Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Wells wrote: > Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of > those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps > you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative

[PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful

2006-05-04 Thread John Hicks
John Wells wrote: Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach: Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if some of you hav