<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$str = <<<EOT
When anything but a newline or carriage return--even 
whitespace, or a comment--comes after the semicolon after 
the heredoc closing label (on the same line), a parse 
error is generated.
EOT; 

echo $str;
?>

This was compiled from cvs last night; configure line:

./configure \
   --with-java \
   --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
   --with-gd \
   --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
   --enable-versioning \
   --enable-track-vars \
   --enable-sysvshm \
   --disable-debug \
   --with-xml \
   --with-dom=/usr/lib