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