Re: Re: Quick question about closing PHP tags

2009/2/3 Karsten Dambekalns <karsten@typo3.org>: > Hi. > > On 02.02.2009 9:28 Uhr, mike wrote: >> >> There's some discussion going on -discuss about whether or not to >> close PHP tags. > > ... >> >> Obviously the bonus is no stupid human error/whitespace type issues >> with output buffering and such. But I wanted to know if there's any >> opinion either way for any other reasons? > > If I expect human errors with whitespace, I better not trust the code. > > Honestly, how hard is it to simply start and end your files with <?php and > ?> and never write HTML and PHP mixed? MVC was mentioned, and templating is > already some years old as well. > > I don't get it, why would I want this? If the tags never had been needed, > fine, but now... > > Regards, > Karsten > > PS: Let the idea grow for another eight years! :) When PHP6 becomes the norm with its lovely unicode handling, BOM's may become more prevalent. If the editor of choice supplies them, having PHP strip them from include/require would be helpful. Richard. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"