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

Why are short tags (<? ?> and <% %>) such a bad thing? Why does the PHP formatting (tags) matter in terms of SGML & XML? Not that it matters, but personally I prefer to use the short tags <? and ?> because it's less code for me to write, it fits nicely into my HTML, and I find <?= much easier to read than <?php echo. I honestly don't really care for <?php= , although I do understand the reasoning behind it and agree with the consistency argument for it. - Gabriel