Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
| From: | Marco Pivetta | Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:27:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags | ||
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, 19:25 Christian Schneider, <cschneid@cschneid.com>
wrote:
> Am 24.04.2019 um 19:13 schrieb Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, 19:10 Christian Schneider, <cschneid@cschneid.com>
> wrote:
> > Am 24.04.2019 um 19:01 schrieb Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com>:
> > > just a friendly reminder that by the time one writes an email here
> > > these tags can be already replaced with the usual ones.
> >
> > A friendly reminder that some people are hosting customer code which
> they do not want to touch but will get support requests once the code
> breaks.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > That's normal? Everyone has projects to maintain, and breaking changes
> are common: they're gonna call you for one anyway: if you don't like that,
> then you are in the wrong line of business.
>
> See Chase Peeler's point: A breaking change should have a reward big
> enough to justify it.
> And that's what where we (including Zeev Suraski and other core
> developers) disagree.
>
> - Chris
>
Run a fixer: they are out there, and they are extremely stable too.
Also a good chance to finally take a look at code that has been rotting in
a hard drive for too much time.