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

Seems good to me. Short tags have long presented a risk of code leakage and lack of portability, since they are dependent on an ini setting which not everyone has enabled. Hopefully this can land in time for PHP 7.4. ________________________________ From: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 5:55 AM To: Peter Kokot Cc: Zeev Suraski; G. P. B.; Stanislav Malyshev; Derick Rethans; PHP Internals List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 6:53 PM Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 20:56, Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Not trying to rush anyone to something they have no energy working on > > anymore here but what's the plan here then? And what plan is there > > with these short tags on the long run? > > I'm just checking then why is this RFC in the pending implementation > state if basically we're on a way to have the short opening tags in > PHP for ever... Maybe we should then enable them by default to have > the other way around situation of having both tags for few 10 years > and then ditch the long one if it's not going to be deprecated in PHP > 7.4 and decided what to do with them? > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags > Girgias has put up a new implementation at https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4263. If short_open_tag=On and <? is used, a single deprecation warning is thrown. short_open_tag=On remains the default, so there will be no accidental code leakage due to changed defaults. If short_open_tag=Off, then <? in the code are ignored as usual. I believe that addresses the implementation concerns and we can go ahead with landing this RFC. Nikita