Andi Gutmans wrote:
We definitely can't remove short tags as it is too common. However, I have always been against the short <?= notation because it just saves
I do not prefer to use short tags also. This is one of the reason why I prefer to have <?php=. I think many people enables <? or <% tags just to use OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO. I'm one of them enables ASP
tag for that... <?= and <%= are not portable, too.
Having many "<?php echo" does not look nice, especially if file is
written in mostly HTML...
Not having "<?php=" is promoting use of short tags. (At least for
me)
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Yasuo Ohgaki