Re: Regarding the echo short tag

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, dukeofgaming <dukeofgaming@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to ask what is the community's feeling on keeping the echo > shortcut. I know short tags are kind of deprecated and I think it is the > right call, however, I really really think the echo shortcut <?= should be > kept regardless of plain short tags, which are kind of pointless. I've read > the RFC regarding this and I think the second + third option are the only > sane ones. > > Regarding syntax, I do like <?:$var and would maybe also advocate for > <%=$var or <% $var. I think  another option could be a valid namespaced XML > notation <php:var /> (which is still shorter than <?php echo $var?>), but > maybe this later has bigger implications that I'm too stupid right now to > realize (for better or worse). > > I'm personally still using them since the benefit and enjoyment of working > them supersedes the worst case scenario, which is a global find & replace of > <?= to <?php echo. I tell my coworkers to enjoy them while they still can, > however this is a luxury that can be only had with custom development, not > open-source projects due to the obvious problems with portability given that > short_open_tags is now off by default. > > Best regards, > > David Vega > I thought we alredy decided to keep the short echo. Tyrael