Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Deprecate PHP's short open tags V2

I continue to find motivations #1 and #3 utterly bizarre, especially that "open tags not being compatible with XML" is still being used as a justification. That said, the depreciation and removal process looks solid, with the exception of complete removal in PHP 8.1. I must question if people are really so desperate to use <? in plain text (for XML?) that it needs to be removed with such haste, especially as its continued existence at that point would be strictly as a security feature. If I may make one suggestion, I see the depreciation message is quite plain. One would not be stretching the bounds of reasonableness too far to suggest the creation of a dedicated page on php.net that contains a description, a link to csfixer etc, and then that link be included in the depreciation message itself. -- Mark Randall On 23/07/2019 18:54, G. P. B. wrote:

Hello internals, https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags_v2