Re: Re: omitting T_CLOSE_TAG

It is quite intentional and will stick around forever :) Andi At 01:14 PM 8/29/2005, Sara Golemon wrote:

I am searching for some evidence in the PHP source code that the possibility of omitting the closing PHP tag is absolutely intentional, and in fact part of the language syntax, and therefore it is going to be supported indefinitely. Digging for T_CLOSE_TAG and similar stuff have lead me to nothing. I can't imagine a situation where that level of BC breakage would *EVER* be permitted. In fact, last I heard it was recommended practice for PEAR files to omit the end tag. I suppose it might accidently break if include were ever shifted to C style inclusion, but that breakage would wind up being considered a bug in the "new feature" and could be easily fixed by automatically reseting the lexer state before and after the include statement. Actually I would like to clarify and possibly extend the note on page: http://php.net/manual/en/basic-syntax.instruction-separation An example might be helpful... "<?php echo 'Foo'; ?>" and "<?php echo 'Foo';" are interpreted identically by PHP. -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php