Re: nowdocs again

Pierre Joye schreef:

On Jan 30, 2008 3:00 PM, Antony Dovgal <tony@daylessday.org> wrote:

On 30.01.2008 16:41, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

The final nowdoc patches are attached. I'm going to commit them on Thursday in case of no objections.

So the current syntax is $var = <<<'TEXT' text 'TEXT'; am I right? I believe it's far from readable and clear and I suggest not to add it until we have a better syntax.

What do you suggest? :)

someone suggested this: $s = <<<~TEXT foo bar qux TEXT; which does seem more readable and/or less confusing than quoting the delimter. or maybe use an unbalanced single quote: $s = <<<'TEXT foo bar qux TEXT; which could have a complement of $s = <<<"TEXT foo bar qux TEXT; the '"' being optional and having the same meaning as heredoc syntax as it stands now. having an unbalanced quote would leave less room for someone to ask why a string literal was used (because it's not a string literal without the second quote), additionally using single/double quote identifiers likens the here* syntax to the behaviour of single and double quoted strings with regard to variable interpolation. just a thought.

Also looking at the discussion, I can see only 6 people involved (including Dmitry), which most likely means nobody is really interested in that "nowdoc" and this is yet another reason not to add it. P.S. I personally see no need in such thing at all.

I'm pretty sure there is more people interested. I find nowdoc very handy and is the perfect complement to heredoc.