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

Hello, On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 23:12, Björn Larsson <bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I did a quick check on two open source libraries that I'm using, > namely Smarty templating library and Revive ad server. A quick > glance at hand shows that they both uses the <? tag in their > latest release. Smarty 3.1.33 was released 17/9 2018 and > Revive 4.2.0 was released 23/4 2019. > > It would be interesting to see if there is any benefit in fixing this > feature for these two well-established libraries? I think that both > these libraries will adapt, but how long will it take... Regarding > your points above I don't see any added value that this feature > brings for me as a user of these two libraries, since I'm quite > happy with the functionality they provide as is. How then the > developers see it is not up to me to judge. > > r//Björn L > I'm not sure if we're looking at the same libraries and versions here but both of these use normal opening tags in the code for quite a while: https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty Keywords open source, PHP, and short opening tags don't go together anymore neither people coding in PHP are using these anymore for a very long time. If they postpone upgrades and neglect good coding practices, nothing can help them improve or fix their apps. -- Peter Kokot