Re: Re: Is it true that short_open_tag is deprecated in PHP 6?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 19 May 2011 00:30:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Is it true that short_open_tag is deprecated in PHP 6? | ||
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On 05/18/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Olson wrote:
>> apparently somebody else brought up the shortag(specifically the <?= tag) topic again,
>> and I've noticed that you moved the rfc from declined to "In discussion" recently
>> (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortags?do=revisions), so I would like to know that are these rules still
>> hold, or did something happened since this decision?
>> I couldn't find the suggested clarification in the docs either (maybe looked at the
>> wrong place)
>
> The topic split into a few directions with "decoupling <?= from short_open_tag"
> being one of them. I moved it to "In discussion" because the decoupling idea gained
> traction although afair it wasn't discussed at length, but it's part of the 5.4 'to
> discuss' TODO[1].
>
> Regards,
> Philip
>
> [1] https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54
As far as I remember there weren't any serious objections to decoupling
<?= and leaving it always enabled. It doesn't interfere with other PI
tags in a file, and nobody else is going to come along and use it on us.
-Rasmus