WHat are the benefits of placing the concatenation character at the end or beginning of a line
<p>Considering multiple lines of say SQL query strings:</p>

<pre><code>$sql = "select * from table ".
"where a=5";
</code></pre>

<p>What do you think are the benefits and downsides of putting the concatenation character at the end or beginning of the line?</p>

<p>This is to revise a coding guidelines document, we have 2 people here that "feel" it should be either way</p>
