Okay, you are right. I must have missed that sentence. Sorry.
It is a 'good' coding practice (with many people) to indent everything (that
should be indented, like if's). You can't do a doc quoting inside of an if
and still maintain 'good' coding practices. That is a bug, in my opinion,
because you ought to be able to do both perfectly. I understand why the
developers did what they did, but maybe a compromise could be reached? I
don't know what that would be, but maybe escaping any stop words before the
actual stop word with quotes or ticks or something.
Maybe someone could amend the manual a little bit, like changing "The
closing identifier must begin in the first column of the line." to "The
closing identifier must begin in the first column of the line (i.e., you
can't have anything before the closing identifier)."
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: "Bug Database" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: PHP 4.0 Bug #9387 Updated: Doc String Quoting Problem
> ID: 9387
> Updated by: torben
> Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Old-Status: Open
> Status: Bogus
> Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
> Assigned To:
> Comments:
>
> This is not a bug. Check the third sentence below, from the PHP Manual at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php:
>
> Another way to delimit strings is by using here doc syntax ("<<<"). One
should
> provide an identifier after <<<, then the string, and then the same
identifier to
> close the quotation. The closing identifier must begin in the first
column of the
> line. The label used must follow the same naming rules as any other label
in PHP:
> it must contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores, and must
start with
> a non-digit character or underscore.
>
>
>
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> [2001-02-21 17:21:34] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> When you are using doc string quoting or something, php doesn't recognize
the thing that stops it if indented at all or something. There are two
examples to illistrate my point:
>
> echo <<<BARFY
> This is a good example.
> It works perfectly.
> BARFY
>
> echo <<<BARFY
> This is a bad example.
> It fails miserably.
> Note the space before BARFY.
> BARFY
>
>
> Maybe this is a bug, maybe it is a feature. I don't know, but please fix
it or make note of it in the manual. Thanks.
>
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