At 12/18/2006 10:14 PM, clr wrote:
Please can someone advise me on heredoc and its shortcommings,
I am designing a complex site and elected to use DIV's as opposed to frames.
Heredoc seems to be ideal in that I can do all processing first and
then layout with relative ease.
I was wondering if it was acceptable to use and maintain going
forward as i have read on a few mailing archives
that this is a "cheat" and lazy and to be depreciated??
Yikes! Then a scoundrel I must be indeed. I love using heredoc,
primarily because it lets me compose blocks of pure output text
without interrupting it with control structures, nested quotes, and
concatenation syntax, even when it contains nested variables. It
helps me to separate logic from markup, something that benefits my
code (if not my character!).
I imagine you'll hear from others whose sensibilities are offended by
heredoc -- in particular those whose careful indentation it spoils --
so I wanted to make sure you knew that it had an (admittedly cheating
and lazy yet) ardent supporter as well.
I don't know whom, in programming, you can cheat other than yourself;
I've been suffering under the misapprehension that laziness is a
virtue because it teaches efficiency; but I really hadn't heard that
heredoc was going to be deprecated. If it is then it will be my loss
and the gain of those who earn royalties from the use of quotation
marks and periods and who make their living pulling the tangled and
bloody fragments of logic and markup from the wreckage of their collision.
Regards,
Paul
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