Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:00 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/04/2019 14:41, vsuraski@gmail.com wrote: > > A 68% majority which barely clears the 2/3 requirements for something as > fundamental as that - with so many core devs against it - we'll deserve all > the criticism that will be coming our way in 7.4/8.0 from end users > wondering why we needlessly broke their apps and made migration a bit more > of a headache. > > This is yet another negative move in my forward planning and just > another cross against even bothering with PHP8 ... and PHP7.4 is only > going to complain about things so while I've not even started testing on > PHP7.3, that is likely to be the last version of PHP I will be using ... > once all the warnings are dealt with on PHP7.2 ... I don't think even > the carrot of 'JIT' this time trumps being beaten around the head with > more and more BC changes we will to have to manage and adding 'php' to > every <? that is not a simple <?= in template files goes heavily against > all the other attempts at removing descriptive text elsewhere. > > Total files scanned: 20,767 Total lines scanned: 4,013,170 Total short open tag references: 6,787 Total files w/ short open tag references: 1,665 If I get started now, maybe I can have everything fixed by the time 8.1 is released. > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Chase Peeler chasepeeler@gmail.com