Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:55:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags | ||
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Hi!
> 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.
I agree. I think it will be a mistake to do this, and it will hurt a lot
of people upgrading to 7.4, and people who voted "yes" seriously
underestimate how much old code is out there. And the benefit of this
change for the user is virtually non-existant (in fact, one of the
listed benefits - "As such source code may leak if PHP relying on the
short open tags is executed on a configuration where this isn't enabled"
- is exactly the situation that would happen when the RFC is implemented).
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com