Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
doesn't php have something like qq// and q// in perl? qq = double quote interpolation q = single quote (no interpolation) the delimiteer / can be any character you'd like. or, like stated previously, use a heredoc. or smarty-template engine. On 5/4/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 4, 2006 1:53 pm, John Hicks wrote: Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close string delimiters? Because then you need to escape the closing character anyway, to have it as data, so what did you just gain, really? Not to mention that all the good matching possible delimiters are already taken for Arrays, code blocks, tag start/end, and order of operations. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
thank god PHP doesn't have qq// and q//, it's one of the few things I can't stand in Perl (along with the 100 different ways of calling the same variable (@var, $var, %var, etc.). Just use a standard delimiter with standard, normal, quotes. It's really not that hard. Anthony Ettinger wrote: doesn't php have something like qq// and q// in perl? qq = double quote interpolation q = single quote (no interpolation) the delimiteer / can be any character you'd like. or, like stated previously, use a heredoc. or smarty-template engine. On 5/4/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 4, 2006 1:53 pm, John Hicks wrote: Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close string delimiters? Because then you need to escape the closing character anyway, to have it as data, so what did you just gain, really? Not to mention that all the good matching possible delimiters are already taken for Arrays, code blocks, tag start/end, and order of operations. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
John Wells wrote:
Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of
those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps
you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach:
Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if
some of you haven't thought the same thing:
Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
string delimiters?
So (in an ideal world) the code in question
echo
td width=\25%\ align=\center\
a
href=\javascript:open_window('$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid');\
view/a
a href=\$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid\
onclick=\return confirm('are you sure?');\delete/a/td
;
would be rendered something like this:
echo {
td width={25%} align={center}
a
href={javascript:open_window({$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid});}
view/a
a href={$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid}
onclick={return confirm({are you sure?});}delete/a/td
};
or like this:
echo [
td width=[25%] align=[center]
a
href=[javascript:open_window([$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid]);]
view/a
a href=[$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid]
onclick=[return confirm([are you sure?]);]delete/a/td
];
Of course, having separate characters for opening and closing double or
single quotes would work, but that would require changing the basic
ASCII set.
I believe some European languages use and as quotation marks.
What ASCII characters do they use?
I have seen some JavaScript code that uses curly braces to delimit a
string, but can't find that documented anywhere.
Thoughts anyone?
--J
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Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
You can:
ul
?php for ($i=0;$i=10;$i++) { ?
lilist item ?= $i; /li
?php } ?
/ul
for example
On 04/05/06, John Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Wells wrote:
Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of
those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps
you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach:
Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if
some of you haven't thought the same thing:
Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
string delimiters?
So (in an ideal world) the code in question
echo
td width=\25%\ align=\center\
a
href=\javascript:open_window('$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid');\
view/a
a href=\$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid\
onclick=\return confirm('are you sure?');\delete/a/td
;
would be rendered something like this:
echo {
td width={25%} align={center}
a
href={javascript:open_window({$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid});}
view/a
a href={$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid}
onclick={return confirm({are you sure?});}delete/a/td
};
or like this:
echo [
td width=[25%] align=[center]
a
href=[javascript:open_window([$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid]);]
view/a
a href=[$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid]
onclick=[return confirm([are you sure?]);]delete/a/td
];
Of course, having separate characters for opening and closing double or
single quotes would work, but that would require changing the basic
ASCII set.
I believe some European languages use and as quotation marks.
What ASCII characters do they use?
I have seen some JavaScript code that uses curly braces to delimit a
string, but can't find that documented anywhere.
Thoughts anyone?
--J
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Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
You can simplify usi single instead double quotes:
echo '
td width=25% align=center
a
href=javascript:open_window(\'$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid\');
view/a
a href=$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid
onclick=return confirm(\'are you sure?\');delete/a/td
';
:)
-afan
John Wells wrote:
Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of
those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps
you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach:
Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if
some of you haven't thought the same thing:
Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
string delimiters?
So (in an ideal world) the code in question
echo
td width=\25%\ align=\center\
a
href=\javascript:open_window('$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid');\
view/a
a href=\$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid\
onclick=\return confirm('are you sure?');\delete/a/td
;
would be rendered something like this:
echo {
td width={25%} align={center}
a
href={javascript:open_window({$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid});}
view/a
a href={$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid}
onclick={return confirm({are you sure?});}delete/a/td
};
or like this:
echo [
td width=[25%] align=[center]
a
href=[javascript:open_window([$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid]);]
view/a
a href=[$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid]
onclick=[return confirm([are you sure?]);]delete/a/td
];
Of course, having separate characters for opening and closing double or
single quotes would work, but that would require changing the basic
ASCII set.
I believe some European languages use and as quotation marks.
What ASCII characters do they use?
I have seen some JavaScript code that uses curly braces to delimit a
string, but can't find that documented anywhere.
Thoughts anyone?
--J
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Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
Surely you can't then interpolate the variables?
On 04/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can simplify usi single instead double quotes:
echo '
td width=25% align=center
a
href=javascript:open_window(\'$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid\');
view/a
a href=$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid
onclick=return confirm(\'are you sure?\');delete/a/td
';
:)
-afan
John Wells wrote:
Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of
those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps
you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach:
Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if
some of you haven't thought the same thing:
Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
string delimiters?
So (in an ideal world) the code in question
echo
td width=\25%\ align=\center\
a
href=\javascript:open_window('$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid');\
view/a
a href=\$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid\
onclick=\return confirm('are you sure?');\delete/a/td
;
would be rendered something like this:
echo {
td width={25%} align={center}
a
href={javascript:open_window({$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid});}
view/a
a href={$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid}
onclick={return confirm({are you sure?});}delete/a/td
};
or like this:
echo [
td width=[25%] align=[center]
a
href=[javascript:open_window([$php_self?action=view_recorduserid=$userid]);]
view/a
a href=[$php_self?action=delete_recorduserid=$userid]
onclick=[return confirm([are you sure?]);]delete/a/td
];
Of course, having separate characters for opening and closing double or
single quotes would work, but that would require changing the basic
ASCII set.
I believe some European languages use and as quotation marks.
What ASCII characters do they use?
I have seen some JavaScript code that uses curly braces to delimit a
string, but can't find that documented anywhere.
Thoughts anyone?
--J
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Re: [PHP] Quotation marks considered harmful
On Thu, May 4, 2006 1:53 pm, John Hicks wrote: Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close string delimiters? Because then you need to escape the closing character anyway, to have it as data, so what did you just gain, really? Not to mention that all the good matching possible delimiters are already taken for Arrays, code blocks, tag start/end, and order of operations. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
