Re: short_open_tag

Kristian Köhntopp wrote: > > 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. Just because Alan Cox says something doesn't mean it applies to us. short_open_tag has been "on" by default for over three years, that's not exactly what I call "change it early". There's another saying you know: "If it works, don't fix it." Now, you may argue about whether something works, but the fact is that as soon as people want to mix PHP and XML, they will run into this (it will break reliably), and switch off short_open_tag. Beyond that people can make their own rules and follow them, in FAST we always install PHP with --disable-short-tags for example. - Stig