Re: short_open_tag

I'm -1 on removing short tags, whether now or for PHP5. I use a Web host that allows short tags, and I can do this to add my XML header to be XHTML compliant: <? echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\" ?>\n"; ?> Yes, perhaps it is slightly annoying to not just be able to write the <?xml ... ?> without it being interpreted by PHP (I think that was the original argument, right?). However, I cannot imagine how someone can truly justify causing so much pain for so many PHP users for something semantic like this. Look at the hardship the register_globals change made, and that was: 1. Just a default setting that can be changed back rather than something we removed completely. 2. Something that had a significant purpose; it helps inexperienced developers avoid some common security mistakes. Again, -1 from me. Chris