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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] nowdocs again
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

Dmitry Stogov wrote:
> The feature is very useful, however, I agree, the syntax would be 
> better. :)
> The current syntax:
> 
> $var = <<<'TEXT'
> text
> TEXT;

I would like to see nowdocs.  The closest equivalent in another syntax I 
can think of is xml's CDATA.  Perhaps we can borrow something similar to 
that syntax

$var = <<<CDATA[
string here
]CDATA;

Greg