note 113857 added to language.types.string

gtisza at gmail dot com You incorrectly stated that thee documentation doesn't refer anything about the semicolon at the end of the heredocs and nowdocs being interpreted as a "real" semicolon. If you read carefully, you will notice this, in the 1st sentence of the warning about heredocs: "It is very important to note that the line with the closing identifier must contain no other characters, except a semicolon (;)." Interesting... It is refering about semicolons... But wait, there is more: http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php 1st sentence says: "As in C or Perl, PHP requires instructions to be terminated with a semicolon at the end of each statement." So, here says that semicolons are statement separators, basicly... So, if you put a "real" semicolon at the end of these examples: <?php $a=5; $foo="String"; $bar=array(); $yep=null; $other=func(); ?> Why shouldn't you put at the end of heredocs and nowdocs? After all, a heredoc or a nowdoc is simply a string. You should read more carefully the documentation first before saying any comment. About serious questions: I didn't read all comments here, but you can run functions inside strings and heredocs. And you can even nest them inside {} Example: <?php $f=function($x){$a=func_get_args();unset($a[0]);return call_user_func_array($x,$a);}; $d=0; echo $b=<<<NUMBERS 4.0909 rounded is: {$f('round',4.0909,$d)} Time now is: {$f('time')} Nested heredocs/nowdocs: {$f('sprintf',<<<OTHER Here is an %s of nested %s OTHER ,"Example",<<<'NOW' heredocs and nowdocs NOW )} NUMBERS; /*echoes (time is system and real time relative): 4.0909 rounded is: 4 Time now is: 1386670912 Nested heredocs/nowdocs: Here is an Example of nested heredocs and nowdocs */ ?> It's not pretty, and is hard to read, but sometimes it is useful to confuse curious people (like minifying the code). Warning: if any function that runs inside a string or heredoc gives a fatal error, the script MAY continue! ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 72.52.91.14 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/113857 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113857 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/113857 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php