Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
| From: | Thomas Hruska | Date: | Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:06:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags | ||
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On 4/25/2019 12:26 AM, Stephen Reay wrote:
Both the sed and PHP-CS-Fixer solutions recommended on this list would have broken several of my production applications AND failed to provide a complete conversion in the process. Hopefully that explains where my statement came from. Apologies if I came on too strongly here. I still think that software that works only on a subset of PHP code is a recipe for disaster. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President I've got great, time saving software that you will find useful. http://cubiclesoft.com/ And once you find my software useful: http://cubiclesoft.com/donate/On 25 Apr 2019, at 14:11, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com> wrote: sed-based solutions do NOT work. Neither of the two recommended options to date on this list are valid recommendations for serious software deployment managers.I have no issue with suggesting tools to fix short opening tags, but lay off the absolute statements. The approaches mentioned literally do work (because the people who mentioned them used them), they just may not work *for your codebase*.