Re: Regarding the echo short tag

Should this go in "Accepted" then?. Regards, David On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > 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 >