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

From: Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:05:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Is there a technical reason <?= considered a "short tag"?
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Hi!
No, #1 in your list is why people got sick of it. You want to bind the decoupling of <?= as a short tag to the removal of short tags. They are two different issues.
I do not insist on 1. I'd be ok with not touching short tags but just moving <?= to non-short. I just think once <?= is non-short, nobody needs short tags anymore, but I could be wrong. We may do it in 2 steps. We might even have <?= made non-short in 5.3 maybe :)
The only change I care to see is that <?= is always valid. That would
Same here. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com

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