It's not only because of xml stuff but also because of
the portability reasons..not everyone has short-tags enabled.
Would it be that most of the people who have them enabled do that
just because <?php= doesn't work..?
+1 for <?php= if those short-tags are deprecated. :)
--Jani
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
>> > Combine that with incompatibility of PHP's short open tag with XML, and
>the
>> > reason for having <?php= becomes clearer.
>>
>> As Rasmus is probably tired of pointing out, this isn't much of an
>argument.
>> This:
>>
>> if ($i < 4) {
>> ...
>>
>> is incompatible with XML (it'd have to be if ($i < 4) ...)
>
>That's not what I'm talking about. Last time I tried
>
><?xml ...
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>with short open tag enabled, PHP gave me parse error.
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>Edin
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