100% agreed. Please revert, this commit has nothing but the potential for confusion and bugs. short_open_tag is thankfully deprecated and
No, it has something but. Please read the list. And I don't see why to deprecate short_open_tag anyway, and it is not listed anywhere as deprecated, and is actually widely used.
shouldn't be messed with now, potentially causing people to think it's an active feature instead of a problematic construct.
That's because it is.
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