Re: <?php= ?> sytanx again

Jani Taskinen wrote:

I'd rather see these magic hacks to be removed altogether.. +1 for removing short-tags and the hacks.

These aren't hacks from a technical perspective. I personally am also for <?php= ?> its quite useful as a shortcut instead of <?php echo ?>, i don't see what's hacky about this (plus sometimes you need to write hacky code just to get something simple done). -Sterling

--Jani On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote:

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.

If you want your PHP code to work everywhere you need to use <?php. I see no harm in allowing <?php= syntax (and would personally love to se Yasuo's patch applied).

+1 from me too, it's better then having to do: <?php echo $blaat; ?> Derick ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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