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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] nowdocs again
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Greg Beaver wrote:
> 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;

No, please, let's not further promote CDATA abuse.  Everyone seems to 
think that CDATA is some sort of binary-clean way to toss any junk they 
want into an XML file which isn't even close to being true.

I don't think the 'FOO' syntax is very obvious either, but I can't think 
of a better one and if there isn't a commonly known syntax we can steal 
from another language, then making up our own, no matter what it is, is 
going to be non-obvious to a lot of people.

-Rasmus