Re: short_open_tag

Wolfgang Drews wrote: > Actually everybody - especially if he/she ist working > with XML - should know that using short-tags in PHP is not > xml-conform. Everybody s h o u l d use it, but why force > them? Alan Cox, at Linuxtag this year: If you know you must change the API, change it as early as possible and change it hard so that things break reliably. Alan is right. > People working with XML are often advanced programmers and > generally use the "right" style anyway. So why do you want > to break many scripts, just for the "small" benefit of some? Because shortly you will have to do it anyway. Do it as early as possible, as soon as you know it is inevitable anyway. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/