On 20 November 2024 19:26:12 CET, Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:23 Kamil Tekiela wrote: > >> Do you know why the two exist? Was there any historical reason for this? >> >> From what cmb69 said[1], it seems like it may exist because of the >> implicit semicolon in ?>, and after I tested it, it seems to be true. >> Was there ever any other reason? > >I hope no one writes code like that where separate <?php ?> tags are >interleaved around each switch, case, break, and endswitch statement. That's >atrocious...
All my PHP based templates for the xdebug.org site use this style. I don't think it's atrocious, and quite a bit nicer than the "new" syntax. It's also not a decades old choice (and not even by me). cheers Derick
