From:             samuel dot hapak at gmail dot com
Operating system: Debian
PHP version:      5.2.11
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  No way to break long strings when declaring class constant

Description:
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Consider following example:

class Example
{
    const LONG_SENTENCE = "This sentence is really very very very very
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very
very very very very very long";

};

It is not possible to breakup the assigned string using dot operator, and
php also doesn't support neither c-like constant string concatenation
("really " "very" ->  "really very") or c-like line continuation (end the
line with backslash). 

This is really annoying, cause I end with the code containing extra long
lines and I can't split them, making code unreadable without scrolling. 


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Fixed in SVN:                        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=support
Expected behavior:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50113&r=mysqlcfg