Re: Consider only ignoring newlines for final ?> in a file

On 07.09.2017 at 16:21, Andrea Faulds wrote: > This seems like a reasonable workaround, thank you for the idea. It > reminds me of what PHP's source code does with preprocessor instructions: > > #ifndef FOO > #    define FOO > #endif Hence the name PHP. :) > That said, I still think the ?> newline behaviour should be looked at, > since this kind of workaround isn't universally applicable (and in any > case isn't to everyone's tastes). In particular, if you want to generate > plain text and need to insert a newline, having PHP throw them away and > requiring you to add extra ones to compensate makes for uglier source > code which is harder to reason about. If you don't mind a trailing space (I don't like them, but well), you can write: <?='foo'?> bar And of course, there are template engines which could be used as well. Frankly, I don't see any need for action here. :) -- Christoph M. Becker