Re: Question about ?> bug or feature.
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:26:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Question about ?> bug or feature. | ||
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:14:54PM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Could someone let me know if omission of the closing php tag from a
> source file without generating an error is a bug or a feature? I've
> always thought it a feature, but someone suggested on the general list
> that it's a bug.
It's really neither. It's a function of the language definition.
'<?php' means "start interpretting the following as PHP code".
'?>'
ends the PHP interpretation. If there's no need to end the PHP
interpretation at the end of a file and return to "normal" output
mode, then the trailing '?>' is extraneous.
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