Re: short_open_tag

Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 01:09 AM 10/18/2002 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:

At 18:49 17/10/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

<?xml ()?> has whitespace.

And I personally think it's a bit pushing it. How likely is it for someone to have a function called xml(), and then call it without a space from the <? tag, and then add a space before the parentheses? I think we can safely ignore that one...

I don't see why it's such a big deal for people who are creating xml to turn-off short tags?

Yeah but everyone was just complaining about ISPs having a fixed policy and developers not having access to that. And now all of a sudeen it's not a big deal anymore. We use PHP at my work and I work very closely with the sys-admin on PHP issues and configuration. Removing support for the short tag all tegether would be one major step in making the life of the sys-admin a whole lot easier. If the big question between to have or not to have short_open_tags is to impact on stability, then removing the option will cirtainly eliminate that instability in the future. Moving from an earlier version to version 5 is the perfect opportunity to instigate such a change since most scripts will need to be ported anyway. I cirtainly do not advocate any changes to the exisitng version of PHP. Lets be clear that it's version 5 that we're discussing.

Andi