Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36357 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95963 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2008 02:39:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Mar 2008 02:39:19 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 24.228.80.153 ool-18e45099.dyn.optonline.net Received: from [24.228.80.153] ([24.228.80.153:8363] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9B/54-16027-6D2C5E74 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: <9B.54.16027.6D2C5E74@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:39:11 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1206217047.10080.53.camel@localhost> <00a701c88c89$58110de0$c6fc1f3e@foxbox> In-Reply-To: <00a701c88c89$58110de0$c6fc1f3e@foxbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 24.228.80.153 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Double quoted NOWDOC is HEREDOC From: edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com ("Edward Z. Yang") Steph Fox wrote: > Just one. Why? Probably to be consistent. Let's say a hypothetical user learns to use NOWDOC before HEREDOC: which syntax are they more likely to use; 'NOWDOC' or "HEREDOC". However, I too am -1 because this smacks of the Perl philosophy of "more than one to do things", which, in terms of syntax, is completely unnecessary. -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]]