Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18531 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95983 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Aug 2005 18:49:49 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95968 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2005 18:49:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Aug 2005 18:49:49 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.80.117.3 longsword.omniti.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([66.80.117.3:55211] helo=mail.omniti.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 02/70-15098-CC853134 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:49:48 -0400 Authentication-Results: mail.omniti.com smtp.user=george; auth=pass (LOGIN) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_sign implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=test; d=omniti.com; h=Received:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=MsRAGic8o3cKjRhVLftc4JbzEwQ7GTdgNTU85XDVosJkD1oBRnrKmQgoGUKNa9y1 m8AgX7e33PeGr9vuvEsVqTru6uJuc6Vs5hFtnReKhcqWjtjH2ZpB2AfaAkkxosfN Received: from ([66.80.117.2:51714] helo=[10.80.116.150]) by mail.omniti.com (ecelerity HEAD r(6464/6465M)) with SMTP id C9/10-22298-3C853134 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:49:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43135638.4050100@hojtsy.hu> References: <43135638.4050100@hojtsy.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: Cc: George Schlossnagle , PHP Developers Mailing List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:49:37 -0400 To: Gabor Hojtsy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] omitting T_CLOSE_TAG From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for some evidence in the PHP source code that the > possibility of omitting the closing PHP tag is absolutely intentional, > and in fact part of the language syntax, and therefore it is going > to be > supported indefinitely. Digging for T_CLOSE_TAG and similar stuff have > lead me to nothing. > > Actually I would like to clarify and possibly extend the note on page: > http://php.net/manual/en/basic-syntax.instruction-separation > > Also if you have any positive notes on not using the closing tag > (or any > negative thereof :), please do let me know. Benefit: No unintentional leakage of whitespace (following a closing ? >). George