Re: [RFC] Alternative syntax for Nowdoc.
---- En mié, 30 jun 2021 11:03:32 +0200 Guilliam Xavier <guilliam.xavier@gmail.com>
escribió ----
> Hi,
Hi Guilliam
> Maybe other syntax could be used, but I don't know which. In javascript
> > only a backtick is used:
> > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/01/ES6-Template-Strings
> > .
> > But in PHP this is used as eval.
> >
>
> Just a precision, because you keep referring to it as "eval", which makes
> me "tick" (haha): $cmd (i.e. $cmd wrapped in a pair of backticks) is
> the
> same as shell_exec($cmd), not eval($cmd).
Yes, you're right.
> (BTW, one of JS "template strings" main selling points is string
> substitution / variable interpolation, which is explicitly *not* wanted
> with nowdoc [VS heredoc].)
Yes, I mean that in JS is used some similar (although as you say with variables).
I would prefer to use this "feature" with nowdoc. Normally, strings with variables are
moved to views, while large literals (like queries) are added inline.
> As for the proposal, overall I agree with Rowan -- well, that would not be
> exactly like single quotes (regarding [not] escaping them), but still "yet
> another way" to write a nowdoc string literal.
I see this purpose as a simplification of Nowdocs. Just like [] with
array().
> PS: "amusingly", the code samples are hard to understand after rendered on
> https://externals.io/message/115213
ups!, I'm sorry...but, look at:
https://externals.io/message/115213#115222
Markdown is not broken here due to ``` of code.
Regards,
Manuel Canga
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