Re: short_open_tag]

ZS>> 2. change the parser so that "<? " is a short open tag, ZS>> but "<?nonblank" is not. BTW, this would break some scripts too, because <?echo "blah"; ?> is now a valid expression. Also, <?xml_parse($foo)?> is a valid expression too. So I fear the WTF factor will still be not so low. Generally, I still wonder about all the fuss on this. You have behaviour on PHP that is 100% XML compatible. You have simple well-documented option to use this behaviour. And somebody is trying to make me believe that people who are able to install PHP from source, compile it, write programs in it and understand XML and SGML and all that stuff are *unable to turn on this option*? Sorry, you failed. I don't believe. I do not see wht *any* change is necessary. It just works this way, why do you want to fix something that is not broken? To "educate" people that never asked you to do this? I guess this people would be pretty furious on that unasked education. I, personally, when want to be educated, enlist to some university course or go to one of various colleges or training companies. Wen I buy software, I expect it to be useful, not educating. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.106