Re: Quotation marks considered harmful
| From: | John Wells | Date: | Fri, 05 May 2006 13:29:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Quotation marks considered harmful | ||
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On 5/4/06, John Hicks <johnlist@gulfbridge.net> wrote:
Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close string delimiters?I consider HEREDOC to be the answer to that kind of prayer. For quick one-liners I find it overkill, but I felt so freed when I discovered it for creating large string blocks, like HTML templates with PHP intermixed. The only thing I wish HEREDOC could do is evaluate functions within the string blocks. But at least it will evaluate object methods, so if you're a staunch OOPer, you're set. (Yet another reason why I'm a convert) All other comments about having to escape alternative delimiters are valid. -John W