Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

Using <?php=$var ?> seems ridiculous, because it would be implemented only into current branches, so it would not bring compatibility with older releases... Moreover, instead of using <?=$var ?> for variable interpolation, I prefer to use the heredoc syntax, I think it's better for good looking and readable code. For that, I don't see any reason to create any new short_open_tag like config directive... Cyp Ron Korving wrote:

But why doesn't <?php=$foo ?> work? If that'd work, I just might start using <?php ?> Ron "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote in message news:43114C03.1070902@lerdorf.com...

Paul Reinheimer wrote:

My prefrerence would be for the interpreter to look for "<?\w" when short tags is enabled (that was brace, question mark, white space), I don't think i've ever come across an instance when a space or line break wasn't used. I don't have a huge code repository handy but are there any good counter examples live?

Thousands. <?=$foo?> and <?echo $foo?> are both extremely common when injection single PHP variables into forms and general HTML sections. -Rasmus