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

Den 2019-04-24 kl. 16:56, skrev Peter Kokot:

Hello, On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 13:29, G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Internal, The two weeks of voting have now ended. The results are 38 for and 18 against (total 56) for the primary vote to deprecate PHP's short open tag in PHP 7.4. This passes in favor with 68%. The results are 42 for and 15 against (total 57) for the secondary vote to remove PHP's short open tag in PHP 8. This passes in favor with 74%. Thanks for everyone who voted on this issue. Best regards George P. Banyard

Great! It was about time this got removed. And it is a perfect timing also - PHP 8.0 when BC breaking changes can be done. Thank you so much for moving this forward. People who are thinking of supporting some legacy applications on the upcoming PHP 8 will be unfortunately a bit surprised with all the removed features and will have other bigger issues adjusting their code compared to a really simple replace of <? with <?php. It's what the software development and progress is also about. I think this is a good move. -- Peter Kokot

Hi, I agree on this to some degree when it comes to your own code that you control. But, imagine a relatively big open source library that is maintained with small resources. One example I have myself is using a relatively large & well established open source library where I'm using the latest version released before Christmas. I run the site on PHP 7.3, but I still get warnings regarding the RFC Counting of non-countable objects for PHP 7.2 related to this library. With that experience in mind I wonder how different libraries will fare, given this change? One should also have in mind that there has been a discussion on this list about extending the support cycle for PHP 7.4 like for 5.6, but to some degree it was rejected which doesn't help migration efforts. r//Björn L