Re: nowdocs again

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:59:42 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > Greg Beaver wrote: >> Dmitry Stogov wrote: >>> The feature is very useful, however, I agree, the syntax would be >>> better. :) >>> The current syntax: >>> >>> $var = <<<'TEXT' >>> text >>> TEXT; >> >> I would like to see nowdocs. The closest equivalent in another syntax I >> can think of is xml's CDATA. Perhaps we can borrow something similar to >> that syntax >> >> $var = <<<CDATA[ >> string here >> ]CDATA; > > No, please, let's not further promote CDATA abuse. Everyone seems to > think that CDATA is some sort of binary-clean way to toss any junk they > want into an XML file which isn't even close to being true. > > I don't think the 'FOO' syntax is very obvious either, but I can't think > of a better one and if there isn't a commonly known syntax we can steal > from another language, then making up our own, no matter what it is, is > going to be non-obvious to a lot of people. I won't pretend to be the brightest light bulb in the house. But would the following make any sense? $var = [[[HERE Is just another idea HERE It's not Perl, and it's not XML. It's just HERE. :) > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Service provided by hitOmeter.NET internet messaging! .