Consider only ignoring newlines for final ?> in a file

Hi everyone, This is the tiniest of issues, but it's bugged me for a long time and makes the HTML produced by PHP code less readable than it out to be. Specifically, PHP ignores a newline immediately following a ?> tag. The reason for this is, from what I recall, to prevent issues where whitespace at the end of a PHP file is echoed before headers can be sent. On UNIX in particular, all text files (should) end in a newline, so this is a reasonable and necessary feature. However, for ?> tags anywhere that aren't right at the end of the file, this is just a nuisance that makes for messy output. For example, HTML output that should look like: <table>

    <tr>
       <td>foo</td>
       <td>bar</td>
    </tr>

</table> May instead end up looking something like:

<table>    <tr>
       <td>foo</td>       <td>bar</td>
    </tr></table>

Of course, HTML doesn't matter so much, it'll render the same to the end-user. However, for outputting e.g. plain text, newlines can be significant, and so you have to insert an ugly and surprising extra newline following a tag. Would anyone object to me changing how PHP handles this so that only the final ?> tag consumes its following newline, and only at the end of the file? Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/