Doc #78144 [NEW]: Removed in 7.0.0 or not?

From: johannes dot kingma at gmail dot com Operating system: <?= shorthand tag PHP version: 7.3.6 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Removed in 7.0.0 or not? Description: ------------ --- From manual page: https://php.net/language.basic-syntax.phptags --- In https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag one can read that from 5.4 <?= will always be available and that asp_tags will be removed. Basic syntax in Changelog claims that <?= were removed from 7.0.0 What is true? Test script: --------------- Text should read: 7.0.0 The ASP tags <%, %> and the script tag <script language="php"> are removed from PHP. The shorthand tag <?= will be available. Expected result: ---------------- In the php_ini-production: ; This directive determines whether or not PHP will recognize code between ; <? and ?> tags as PHP source which should be processed as such. It is ; generally recommended that <?php and ?> should be used and that this feature ; should be disabled, as enabling it may result in issues when generating XML ; documents, however this remains supported for backward compatibility reasons. ; Note that this directive does not control the <?= shorthand tag, which can be ; used regardless of this directive. ; Default Value: On ; Development Value: Off ; Production Value: Off ; http://php.net/short-open-tag short_open_tag = Off -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78144&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78144&r=mysqlcfg