Fw: heredoc: change of behavoiur?

Resent due to lack of feedback. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jeroen@php.net> Newsgroups: php.dev Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:28 PM Subject: heredoc: change of behavoiur? > Currently, heredoc as a bit of strange behaviour in syntax of terminating > it. > > I think it's a good idea to be a bit looser. It will make it more > consistent, and allows inline use of heredoc. > > For BC: I really think that's no problem, but in rare cases it could lead to > problems. I don't know yet wether BC alone would be showstopper for this > patch. > On the way this patch also solves the bug that mac-newlines are not > understood (didn't see a bug report yet, but that's probably because not > much people use the mac...) > > if there are other reasons to hold to the current syntax, please let me > know. > > (see also: bug 13610) > > Patch available here: > http://www.A-Eskwadraat.nl/~jeroen/php/looser_heredoc.diff > which changes behaviour to: > > A heredoc is considered closed when the heredoc identifier appears directly > after a newline. Remaining characters are allowed, provided they are invalid > identifyer characters. > > Example: > <?php > > mail('jeroen@php.net', 'heredoc test', <<<TEXT > Hello Jeroen, > > Greets! > TEXT, 'Cc: bla@example.com'); > ?> > > And this works: > <?php > echo <<<HEREDOC > bla > HEREDOCUMENTATION; > > HEREDOC; // here the heredoc ends > ?> > > But this doesn't: > <?php > echo <<<HEREDOC > bla > HEREDOC UMENTATION; > > HEREDOC; > ?> > > for the same reason as this is: > echo "bla" UMENTATION; > causes a parse error. > > > >