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

> Le 6 août 2019 à 20:46, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:34 PM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The voting for the "Deprecate short open tags, again" [1] RFC has begun. >> It is expected to last two (2) weeks until 2019-08-20. >> >> A counter argument to this RFC is available at >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/counterargument/deprecate_php_short_tagsãã >> ð¨„{9€}pTÀä >> >> Best regards >> >> George P. Banyard >> >> [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags_v2 >> > > Side-note: Even if this RFC fails, we should probably still make it an > error to use <? without short_tags being **explicitly** enabled, so that we > may flip the default to off at some later point in time. The current > default being "on" despite their use being discouraged is half the trouble. > > Nikita That would mean in particular that XML documents could no longer be preprocessed by PHP without boilerplate around its <?xml ?> declaration. I doubt that this is a more acceptable breaking change than deprecating short_tags. —Claude