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

Le mar. 6 août 2019 à 13:34, G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> a écrit : > 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_tags�G��� > P=�?��F�� > > Best regards > > George P. Banyard > > [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags_v2 The counter-arguments are a really nice addition to the process. Reading them made me think there is a big missing "pro" argument: perceived complexity of the engine. When there is no choice to make (short tags on/off, magic_quote on/off, etc), then there is only one thing to teach, one thing to learn, one thing to (not have to) agree on when deciding for some conventions, etc. When there are N binary options (and not all options are binary), there are 2^N things to teach, learn, etc. That's a major cost put on the community. Choices that were made years ago when PHP was not what it is today were certainly fine, but nowadays, this imposes significant a burden on everyone. Each option individually are maybe minor, but the 2^N becomes quickly big. I think we should make such things way simpler so that we can free the brains of many to do the next things that matter. I don't have a vote, but if I were I would vote "yes". Instead, I encourage "no"-voters to reconsider, and others to vote "yes" too :) Cheers, Nicolas