Re: Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive?

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 10:12, Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote: > > PHP based template engines today most likely use only <?php and <?= > because of this topic today exactly. Possibility of being deprecated > :) I think the short opening tags are good to go so things are more > simple. > A quick search of the list archives showed the opposite: reassurances that short open tags are *not* deprecated, and vocal support for keeping them. > A side question is there any plan to move the idea of removing opening > <?php tag for PHP only files or is this off topic here? PHP has long > moved out of the template engines world and left that task to more > dedicated so called compiled or parsed template engines (such as Twig > or Blade), so maybe something to think about as well. > I think that's a different discussion - and also one that's happened a few times in the past. I think the general conclusion was that the gain isn't big enough to bother changing every tool that works with PHP. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]