[drupal-devel] no ?> needed at the end of modules

[Larry Garfield]

On Sunday 21 August 2005 08:14 am, Khalid B wrote:
> Here is the quote for those who did not click through
>
> + Note:  The closing tag of a PHP block at the end of a file is
> optional, and in some cases + not using it is helpful when using
> output buffering and include() or require().

Can someone explain how it's helpful with output buffering and include()?  
Since with output buffering headers aren't sent until later anyway, it should 
make extra whitespace irrelevant, and therefore negate the need to leave off 
the ?> in order to permit sloppy whitespacing.

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