Re: <?= and <%= both work, why not <?php=

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:27, Brinkman, Theodore wrote: > Ok. I have the feeling that I'm going to be making myself a bit unpopular > here with my first post, but I mean no offense or disrespect. I'm just > trying to understand something. > > PHP allows <?= if short tags are enabled, or <%= if asp-style tags are > enabled, but doesn't allow <?php=. Why? I went so far as to look into the > source and as near as I can tell without getting my hands on a C compiler, > changing it so that the '{opentag}=' format was equivalent to '{opentag} > echo' would take a 2 line patch to one file. I submitted this change as a > feature request in the bug system (#16763), and got the incredibly > informative and helpful response of "this was discussed to death on php-dev. > it's not going to happen." 17 minutes later. > > I've spent the next 2 days trying to hunt down any mention of it, and having > no luck because searching for <?php=, or ?php= turns up no results. So in > an effort to understand why and how the decision was made to leave a feature > partially implemented, I'm left with no resort except to post here and > probably bring down a can of whoop-ass on myself. My appologies to anyone > who is sick of this being discussed. > > That said. Why? > > - Theo One long discussion starts here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=100405792100833&w=2 It looks like consistency was voted down because someone might misread <?php=$var to mean <?$php=$var. Which doesn't seem much worse than the age-old '=' vs. '==' screwup. Anyway, there's the thread and you should read it and decide whether this needs to get going again. :) -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.inflatableeye.com +1.604.709.0506