Re: Is there a technical reason <?= considered a "short tag"?
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:43:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is there a technical reason <?= considered a "short tag"? | ||
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 07:47, Rasmus Lerdorf<rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> Nobody is going to pass a PHP script through an XML parser, and PHP
> itself will never be well-formed, so that is a lost cause. We'd have to
> start tossing CDATA blocks and write code like:
>
> if( 2 < 3 ) echo "2 is less than 3";
No you don't. & and < are perfectly legal in PIs
> And that just isn't going to happen. The only valid argument against
> short_tags itself is that it clashes with named PI tags and <?= does not
> have that same problem.
<?= is not a valid target name either, so it has the same problem.
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-Hannes