Re: Is there a technical reason <?= considered a "short tag"?

On May 30, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Roman I wrote:

Philip Olson wrote:

On May 18, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Roman I wrote:

From what I know, in the future versions of PHP short tags are going to be disabled by default.

<snip> Common misunderstanding but the short_open_tag directive will never be disabled by default. There are distributed php.ini-* files that disable them, but those don't contain default values.

This neither answers nor invalidates the original question, though.

Unfortunately I do not remember everything about this but do know that: - Decoupling <?= from short_open_tag was discussed, and did not happen - Allowing it to be enabled at runtime was discussed, and did not happen - The issues with <?= and <? are similar... an invalid PI I've not read every thread or discussion on this (there are many) but CVS speaks for itself. Here's one thought comparing the two viewpoints: - http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=120614525214419&w=2 The following RFC mentions this decoupling, yet was declined: - http://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortags And lastly, the general topic of short tags came up recently while several people discussed PHP 6: - http://wiki.php.net/summits/pdmnotesmay09 In summary: It's a topic people don't want to talk about. :) Regards, Philip