Re: [RFC] Loosening heredoc/nowdoc scanner

On 31 Aug, 2014, at 6:12 am, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > 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). I agree, but I can see how this argument is going in circles; my point (and that of Nikita) is that if the enclosure naturally occurs within the quotation, it’s a bad enclosure and a better one should be picked. The rule of requiring a newline directly following the closing delimiter is more of a hindrance than it is helpful imo. > > 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/