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

чт, 8 авг. 2019 г. в 17:56, Robert Korulczyk <robert@korulczyk.pl>: > > Many people have talked about the potential impacts of keeping short > tags. > > I have yet to see anyone give an actual example where they have been > > negatively impacted by their existence. I've given you my personal story > of > > how removing them will negatively impact my company. I welcome anyone > that > > can provide an actual incident where the existence of short tags hurt > them, > > or, the continued existence is likely to have a large negative impact on > > them in the future. > > I was bitten by short open tags. Despite the "no short open tag" policy in > our app, one occurrence of <? slipped through code review. > It was in > email template so it was quite hard to notice on production. Especially > that short open tags were disabled only on CLI, so we had code leak only in > emails sent by cron. It took over a month to notice that bug. > > You may be concerned about people abandoning PHP due to BC breaks, I'm > more concerned about people abandoning PHP because of issues like this. It > gives me the impression that the language wants to hurt you... > > > Regards, > Robert Korulczyk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I'd say this is not really a language concern and more tooling and testing problem. It's a class of a genuine mistake everybody does from time to time - be it wrong PHP tag, HTML tag or closing } added on the wrong line resulting in a logical error. -- Arvīds Godjuks +371 26 851 664 arvids.godjuks@gmail.com Skype: psihius Telegram: @psihius https://t.me/psihius