Michael Virnstein wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> what really would be nice, if PHP would have a more advanced way of
> quoting strings similar to Perl. E.g. the q{} and qq{} function are
> really helpful there or that i can use e.g. $var = !my string 'hallo'!;
$var = "my string 'hallo'"
If you want to have longer strings, use heredoc
$var = <<< EOT
Some text with double quotes(") as well as single ones(')
and even $variables
EOT;
> and i don't have to backslash ' and " inside the string.
>
> another thing that i find useful in Perl is the unless construct. I
> sometimes find it more readable to use "unless($error) {...} " instead
> of "if (!$error) {...}".
This reminds me my days when I used to program in Pascal. The latter has
repeat until with reversed logic. It was PITA to find the expression for
it.
>
> I think this would be nice additions, perhaps you'll consider
> implementing them in future releases.
>
> Thanx
>
Andrey
P.S.
just my thoughts
