Re: RFC 111 (v2) Here Docs Terminators (Was Whitespace and Here Docs)

[Tom Christiansen]

>Bart Lateur wrote:
>>
>> Next you'll propose that
>> 
>>         print <<EOL;
>>         blah
>>         EOL; print "OK!\n";
>> 
>> should work too, and print "OK!\n" as well.

>Why not?! This seems like a good thing. ;, #, or \n are all valid
>end-of-lines for here string delimiters. Sounds easy enough, and
>consistent.

Why not, you ask?  Because it's hard to read, that's why!  By-themselves
terminators stand out nicely, even more so when they're flush left
to the margin.  If you're going to break that fundamental feature,
might as well use regular quotes.

--tom