# Removing if: endif; syntax

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- Started by Ford on 2007-02-06T14:12:46+00:00
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## #27853 — Ford — 2007-02-06T14:12:46+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/27853#27853

> Reading the array thread, someone mentioned having several ways of
> doing things.  One of their examples was the if: endif; syntax.
> Forgive me if this has been discussed, but has anyone proposed
>   removing that for PHP6? Seems like the perfect time to do it.  Its
> not recommended.  Editors that check PHP syntax warn about it.  It
> just seems like a no brainer. =) 

Please don't.  I have several tens of thousands of lines of code using this syntax, and I really, really would not want to have to rewrite them into the less readable, less maintainable pure curly brackets form (which I hate with a passion!).

Cheers!

Mike

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