RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

Hi, >Also imo the reason why people write now (and not in the discussion phase) because for some time >in the voting there wasn't the 2/3 majority for the 7.4 (so no sense to clutter the list) and >now in the end only 1-2 votes make the difference. If this RFC has caused such a resonance _after_ the vote, maybe, it can be reopened for a few days so that those who have not voted can do it? Thus, it is not the "1-2 votes" that will matter. — Sincerely, Sergey Panteleev On 24 Apr 2019, 21:08 +0300, Reinis Rozitis <r@roze.lv>, wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marco Pivetta [mailto:ocramius@gmail.com] > > > > Also a good chance to finally take a look at code that has been rotting in a hard > > drive for too much time. > > It's an odd way of justifying a BC break by saying "you can write this one-liner sed > or use this third-party tool to alter you code" exactly the same way every backwards > incompatible change can be fixed then .. and then it makes no sense to even discuss. > > At the beginning of the proposal it was asked (on mailinglist) if the change has any impact on > performance (php runs faster/language parses becomes substantially simple etc), if there are any > security issues (like with magic quotes) or maybe similarly as with different extensions there is no > one to support the code anymore. > > But in the end there is only the '<?xml' argument and that the documentation > discourages short tags because that’s ini specific (while there are bunch of other ini directives > which change the the way php works (like for example precision)) .. and that's it. > > So instead of by default disabling it and allowing the users make an conscious choice to > reenable the option if needed it's removed altogether. > > > > Also imo the reason why people write now (and not in the discussion phase) because for some > time in the voting there wasn't the 2/3 majority for the 7.4 (so no sense to clutter the list) > and now in the end only 1-2 votes make the difference. > > rr > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >