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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) What is PHP? Intro to Workspaces and PHP Code

Posted by A X
A X
12,842 Points

Why the "?" convention?

I notice in PHP we use ? as the convention to say: "We're using PHP now"...and I'm just curious why question marks are used to indicate the start and end of PHP statements (vocab?)?

1 Answer

Mark Wade
Mark Wade
13,112 Points
Mark Wade
Mark Wade
13,112 Points

That's just what the creator of PHP decided to use :)