Re: Nowdocs revised

On 8/16/07, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > > I didn't get any further, no :(. The decision of whether to merge the > > nowdocs patch is out of my hands now, since I don't have source karma. > > However, since the main thing standing in the way of its implementation > > was concern over the usefulness, your comment is very helpful, and I'd > > like to open the topic for discussion again on the list, if no one out > > there has any objection :) > > I think we can have it in HEAD and maybe in 5.3 - though it raises > questions about compatibility (code not parsing in certain PHP versions > and parsing in others might be a problem). I don't see a difference between a "fatal error call to undefined function" and or a parse error. It can go without problem in 5.3. > Not sure if <<<~ is the best > syntax - it's definitely not obvious, maybe we could think of something > better. <<< was never obvious, there is no obvious string to use in this case (not obvious for everyone and his mother). --Pierre