Re: why is closing tag evil?

From: Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:23:45 +0000
Subject: Re: why is closing tag evil?
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Matt Craig wrote:
In http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=1763 it is said that ?> is evil and therefore not included in the class files generated by DO's Generator.php. Why is it not needed and evil?
Its not really evil. But it poses the danger of accidentially putting whitespace after the closing tag should would lead to sending headers prematurely. As php implicitly sees the end of file as a closing tag its not needed and circumvents this "danger". regards, Lukas

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