I assume this only means "allow users to enable/disable short_open_tag in .htaccess or user.ini files" ? Since it's IIRC(!) compile time thing?
Or can you actually turn the thing on in a script..? :)
The goal is that you can do it. Of course, this wouldn't work for the _current_ script, but for the next ones. Think template system needing to load a bunch of short-tags templates but not wanting to have short tags in system code itself.
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