Re: <?php= ?> sytanx again

From: Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:05:41 +0000
Subject: Re: <?php= ?> sytanx again
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:


I think it also good time to get rid of <? ?> and <?= ?> syntax
(at least, announce <? ?> syntax is obsolete), add <?php= ?>
syntax for replacement, since PHP4.1.0 is in release process.



What could possibly be the motivation for that?  Very few PHP users mix XML and PHP in the same file.  Sure, it happens, but it is by no means the common thing to do.



When I start using PHP, I was currious why there is no <?php= ?> while there are <?= ?> and <%= %>.

I realized, <?php= ?> syntax is really easy to implement while I was looking for what's wrong in memory management.

I think <?php= ?> syntax is nice to have, since it can work with any php configuration. I also think programming language better to be symetric whenever possible. (If there are <?=, <%=, why not <?php=)



The only possible valid point here is that the character encoding specification in XHTML uses <?xml version=... encoding=...?> although this can also be done through a <meta http-equiv...> tag so it is quite possible to write perfectly valid XHTML without forcing people to use <?php ...?> everywhere.



I agree, I just do not prefer to use <meta> tags...
If there is people prefer to use meta tags, getting rid of <? ?> is not good idea. "<?" start tag may confuse some new PHP users, but it's not a big deal.

--
Yasuo Ohgaki



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