Re: <?php= ?> sytanx again

> Sorry to put a spanner in the works but adding <?php= isnt a good idea, its > more magic and I dont think we should be adding any more magic to the > language. <?php echo is only 4 exta chars and is more readable, I would vote > for depreciation of <?= and <%= but I know thats not going to happen either, > lets not make the situation worse by adding more magic. I'm really puzzled by your vote to remove all 'magic' tags. If you don't use them they don't do you any harm. But if you do try to use PHP as HTML-embedded language you'll soon find out that the code becomes very difficult to read if you don't use the 'magic' tags. Combine that with incompatibility of PHP's short open tag with XML, and the reason for having <?php= becomes clearer. I know that different programmers have different coding styles. Mine includes relying on PHP's embedding features rather than using templates and there 'magic' tags come in quite handy. Edin