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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:03:32 +0200
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To: Manuel Canga <php@manuelcanga.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Alternative syntax for Nowdoc.
From: guilliam.xavier@gmail.com (Guilliam Xavier)

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Hi,

Maybe other syntax could be used, but I don't know which. In javascript
> only a backtick is used:
> https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/01/ES6-Template-Strings .
> But in PHP this is used as eval.
>

Just a precision, because you keep referring to it as "eval", which makes
me "tick" (haha): `$cmd` (i.e. $cmd wrapped in a pair of backticks) is the
same as shell_exec($cmd), not eval($cmd).

(BTW, one of JS "template strings" main selling points is string
substitution / variable interpolation, which is explicitly *not* wanted
with nowdoc [VS heredoc].)

As for the proposal, overall I agree with Rowan -- well, that would not be
exactly like single quotes (regarding [not] escaping them), but still "yet
another way" to write a nowdoc string literal.

PS: "amusingly", the code samples are hard to understand after rendered on
https://externals.io/message/115213

-- 
Guilliam Xavier

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