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

> On 24 Apr 2019, at 21:00, 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. > > -- > 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 > Of all the things to ‘refuse to upgrade’ over this seems pretty silly. There are multiple tools that will automatically fix this across an entire codebase in seconds. Heck, a sed 1 liner would do it if you want to DIY it.