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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] nowdocs again
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Gregory Beaver)

Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Such a thing is not nice for casual string syntax highlighting in
> editors. Needs a special rule to handle an opening but not closing
> single quote .. mhmmm :/'

(I'll try again)

I still think it looks weird.  Could we consider instead using <<<' '
with '; required on a new line?

$bar = <<<'
text
with lots of 'quotes', "Quotes"
and a few $variables, \slashes and \n \t not expanded
';

Also very clear (and more intuitive in my view) would be:

$bar = <<<'
text
with lots of 'quotes', "Quotes"
and a few $variables, \slashes and \n \t not expanded
'>>>;

Greg