Re: Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive? PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 03:44, Kenneth Ellis McCall <xellisx@gmail.com> wrote: > G. P. B. wrote: > > 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? > > I would like to see that. "Question mark equals what?". > > If you want to go further, dropping the PHP tag altogether would be > nice, since it would prevent context switching between > PHP/HTML/JS/whatever. That would force Wordpress to update their whole > code base. >:{)> As I don't know how to email I already sent a private response which basically states that the <?= is equivalent to <?php echo as shown on the note on the ini setting: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag (thinking of it this feature maybe could be better documented) Also I could write an RFC for the deprecation as it is controversial but as I said before I would need someone to grant me RFC karma to my PHP.net account girgias Best regards George P. Banyard