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

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 6:25 AM Robert Korulczyk <robert@korulczyk.pl> wrote: > > Disabling short tags now is done with "an explicit directive" (there has > to be a specific ini file with a specific setting 'short_open_tag = 0'). > > Isn't this the same "situation when you create a separate file with an > explicit directive"? > > No, it's not. php.ini is outside of project responsibility > - as a > developer you don't really configure this in any way, your application does > not > have any explicit directive to disable/enable short open tags. You just > accidentally using feature that could lead to code leak. > In your example with engine directive you explicitly disable > PHP engine > by creating dedicated file for that purpose - there is no way do to this by > accident and then does not notice it. > > > > If a coder (or IDE) has written '<?', '<%' or by accident any > > other tag > unless tested the effect (a part of code not being parsed/executed) will be > > exactly the same if the feature suddenly disappeared (unless the > additional checks in the 'v2 RFC' which on the other hand would make the > engine a > > tiny bit slower but probably have to be implemented to avoid such > accidents). > > At least the this behavior will be consistent - you will not have cases > when code works fine on one environment and leak on another. > > > Regards, > Robert Korulczyk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > So far, the RFC only has 55% support, which means it's not going to pass this time, anyway, unless there's a vote shift in the next 8 days.