Re: Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive?

Just gonna do general reply instead of pointing at specific points. But as it has been pointed out using short tags makes the code less portable, which IMO isn't ideal. I personally don't tinker with INI settings withing PHP with ini_set as IMHO if you need to change them it should be done in the php.ini file. However, I'm not sure of the behavior if someone sets this behavior within a file/class does this only affect this specific instance or is it globally? Because if it is globally I can see code that writes/uses XML be affected as pointed out by Johannes As it seems that there are people for and against; I suppose I could write an RFC for this, but would need the karma to do so. Best regards George P. Banyard