"Sterling Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:20021109011938.GB14712@;bumblebury.com... > I definitely think that _you_ should do it. > But this is not the proper place for these questions, ask them on > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for the inappropriate cross-posting Sterling. I was explicitly looking for answers from people with inside knowlegde about the direction development on the scanner is likely to go. I'm a little confused by your answer: I take it you think I'm relatively safe leaving off the ?>. Did I get your meaning correctly? "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.2.20021109021843.00ca9a60@;mail.vogelsinger.at... > The least I can say that it's bad style... it's not documented, and > therefore any tag should be closed. > > Most ascii editors can be configured to discard trailing whitespaces; and > PHP will even ignore a newline character following immediately a closing tag: I agree it's bad style - feels kinda like leaving off </html>. On the other hand, I've got a situation where it's very easy for any of a number of developers to break binary output in an unobvious way by editing quite unrelated files (related only by a big tree of common includes). I'm looking for a practical solution. I can configure *my* editor (though it might take me some time to learn how to do this in emacs). When dealing with a team of people, each with his own religious convictions re text editor of choice, it's difficult enough to get everyone to use spaces instead of tabs. I know this is undocumented (I spent a lot of time reading archives of these groups before posting). I have a hunch, though, that this is the kind of fundamental behavior of the scanner that's not gonna change any time soon. If it does, I hope it will break catastophically rather than mysteriously. "David McArthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:20021108221952.59058.qmail@;pb1.pair.com... > PHP 4.2.2 (linux) doesn't seem to mind if I leave off the closing ?> tag at > the end of a file. Is the ?> assumed at EOF? > > I have PHP that outputs binary and along the way I include() a lot of php > scripts. I'm constantly having problems when I leave a little whitespace at > the end of some script after the ?> which screws up the output binary. > First time this happened it took me hours to figure out the cause. > > What does everyone think about just leaving off the ?> as a solution to > this? It works for me now, but would any PHP developer care to > prognosticate on the liklihood this might change in future? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
