* Thus wrote Jason Wong: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 08:18, John Holmes wrote: > > > It is, I guess. > > > > <?php > > > > $a = ' ?> '; > > $b = ' ?> '; > > > > ?> > > > > will work just fine. If you try to comment out either line, though, the PHP > > processing will end at the ?> and spit out the rest as plain text. So, text > > can have as many ?> as you want and the only issue comes when you try to > > comment one of them out. > > I'm sure it must be documented behaviour, because my syntax highlighting > editor seems to be aware of it. When I stick // in front of $a, the colour > for comments stop just before the ?>. And a quick check of the manual > confirms that it is documented behaviour. http://php.net/language.basic-syntax.comments <snip> The one-line comment styles actually only comment to the end of the line or the current block of PHP code, whichever comes first. </snip> Curt -- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
