Re: <?= was born when?

hi phillip, I've been teetering back and fourth on that issue with binarycloud: I _love_ using <?=$hello?> as opposed to the more compatible: <?php echo $hello; ?> the first _feels_ like a key, the latter does not :) great for html templates. _alex -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: philip@cornado.com (Philip Olson) > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 11 Jan 2001 17:26:13 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PHP] <?= was born when? > > Toby, where at in manual? > > Have looked around : > http://www.php.net/manual/language.basic-syntax.php > > Here it states : > > "Note: Support for ASP-style tags was added in 3.0.4." > > Were they added at same time? Is it considered an "ASP-style tag" ? > Richard eludes to this fact. Also, it's not here : > > http://www.php.net/manual/function.echo.php > > Nor is it around short tags info (correct, they are not the same but > they do have relations in that if short tags are off, this feature dies > too ... ) > > Agreed, changelog would appreciate such a mention. Also, a mention in > "basic syntax" too. > > philip > > p.s. I will never use <?= , just curious when it was came about. Seems > more and more people are using them though ... > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Toby Butzon wrote: > >> Manual suggests 3.0.3, but I can't find any proof of it in >> the changelogs... >> --Toby >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Richard Lynch" <richard@zend.com> >> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:34 PM >> Subject: Re: [PHP] <?= was born when? >> >> >>>> when was <?= 'enabled' in php? 4.0.0 ? >>> >>> Definitely before that -- Not sure when. >>> >>> It was a long discussion, and some PHP Developers still >> think it was a Bad >>> Idea (tm). >>> >>> *SHOULD* be in the ChangeLogs somewhere... >>> >>> It mostly keeps the recent ASP converts from whining :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >> php-general-help@lists.php.net >>> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: >> php-list-admin@lists.php.net >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >