Re: Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive?
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:57:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi!
> I'm currently going through the PHP doc to remove mentions of PHP 4
> and stumbled upon the short_open_tag ini directive [1] which only affects
> the availability of
<? tags as
> <?=is always available as of PHP 5.4.
> From my understanding, the <? tag is not available without
> the directive,
> so maybe we should deprecate PHP's short tag altogether?
Why? What would it improve for people that are using it? For people that
aren't, it obviously won't change anything. So what would be the
motivation for this change?
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Stas Malyshev
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