Re: Throwing an E_DEPRECATED for short_open_tag

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: >> However, we would like to contribute in the quest to make applications >> stop using short_open_tag. To do so, we have decided to throw an >> E_DEPRECATED warning when an application makes use of short_open_tag. The >> current implementation can be found at [1]. >> >> How does this sound? > > We have no plans to deprecate the short open tag. So throwing an > E_DEPRECATED would not be appropriate. > True. An idea I just had was to continue throwing E_DEPRECATED (or a warning with a most appropriate name, if one is added) iff short tags are used without explicitly enabling them at runtime. I haven't looked at how the short_open_tag runtime switch was implemented so I don't know if it's possible or not. This would for example make the following code throw a warning: foo.php <? // ... ?> But not this one: bar.php <?php // ... include("./foo.php"); ?> Does that sound more reasonable? or do you have another idea? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net