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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] nowdocs again
From: webmaster@keryx.se (Keryx Web)

Andi Gutmans skrev:
> I think if the syntax is confusing we can go for just a single quote as
> part of the operator which doesn't make it look like just another plain
> old string, e.g.:
> 
> $bar =<<<'FOO
> Sdjfslk
> Sdfkj
> FOO;
> 

+1/2

Once again thinking as a teacher... Just a few weeks into my last course 
I actually had students asking if there was a "single quote like 
equivalent to heredoc", without my prompting them whatsoever. They just 
thought it would be natural.

I am advocating the suggestion above as having <<<'FOO' looks too much 
like a string and will be misleading for newbies (and ~ is a PITA to 
type on a Swedish keyboard...)

My main concern is that is easy to miss such a small glyph. Maybe:

<<<|FOO

or even

<<<#FOO

would be an alternative?


Lars Gunther