Re: PHP Alternative syntax

> > What I meant was that probably the rumor itself got started from the docs. > > :) > > No, it was on the mailinglist (and caused no discussion, otherwise i'd have > noticed). And James Moore said similar things recently. (i.e. a few hours > ago) I was not that serious :) > In my opinion that syntax is extremely ugly and according to manual notes > causes a lot of strange precendence problems. It's just plain ugly and > vague. I think it should be disencouraged to be used. That's a matter of taste. In my opinion "the alternative syntax" is much more suitable for embedding PHP into HTML or XML. I think that the regular C syntax in that case looks really ugly and was one of the reasons an alternative was needed.