Re: [RFC] Loosening heredoc/nowdoc scanner

Hi Stas, On 30 Aug, 2014, at 2:08 pm, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> I would like to propose a few changes to our heredoc / nowdoc scanner to make it less >> awkward to use inside other constructs. >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/heredoc-scanner-loosening >> >> Let me know your thoughts :) > > With this proposal, you will not be able to use the delimiter inside the > text at the beginning of the line, which is a BC break and may be a > problem for some code. Yes, that’s also mentioned in the RFC; although it would happen more easily when restrictions are completely removed, there’s a slim chance it would happen with the limited set of valid terminators. That said, I would like to quote from the RFC itself: […] it should be noted that the developer is in complete control of choosing the name for their enclosures; it's important to choose an enclosure that doesn't occur naturally inside the quotation. > I'm not sure saving one variable assignment, at > the expense of making scripts less readable and breaking BC, is really > worth it. How often you need an array of heredocs or concatenate two > heredocs? There’s no real objective measure with which I can answer such questions :) The closest I could come to a rebuttal is if there’s no real need to make the syntax so restrictive, why not make it less restrictive? > How often it is a good idea, readability-wise? > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/