Re: [RFC] Loosening heredoc/nowdoc scanner

Hi! > 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? "Why not" is usually not a very good reason for a change in the language syntax. There is, however, a reason why it is restrictive - so that there would be less chance for the end tag to collide with the actual text being heredoc'ed, and so that the end of the text would be clearly demarcated (since the text itself, being taken verbatim, can not be properly indented/delimited within the text). My belief is that the change have positive value of "changing something for the better minus changing something for the worse" and so far I'm not really convinced as of now that this change has it, especially given the BC break potential. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/