Re: Is echo tag reasonably portable?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:39:36PM +0000, Richard Davey wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 5:25:58 PM, you wrote: > > > I don't know, but those who do should not use short tags. And those > > who hope to should not get into the habit of using short tags. > > And for the vast majority remaining, who write closed-apps for > clients?? > > > It will be when you have to sort through 1,000,000 lines of code in > > 400 files to change '<?' to '<?PHP'. Better to save the grief > > and do > > it right to start with, no? > > There is no "right" or "wrong" for this, it's down to personal > developer preference. Nothing more, nothing less. It's only "right" if > you're building an app for distribution to unknown end-users. I don't > think that covers the majority of work we all do here somehow. There is the issue if you are dealing with xml, consider php script is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding....?> <? echo $something_xml_ish ?> which is exactly why <?php was born. Curt. --