Re: New escaped output operator

> <ul> > <?php foreach ( $things as $thing ) { ?> > <li><a href="/things/<?= $thing['name'] ?>" > onclick="show_popup('<?= > $thing['name'] ?>');"><?= $thing['name'] ?></a> > <?php } ?> > </ul> > > There are three different escape mechanism needed there; if there is a > shorthand for one, do you think it will be more likely or less that people > will get the other two right? I have to agree with that - assigning special syntax to one kind of escape-function gives that function an elevated status, which could easily encourage neglect and oversight. I do wish that we had an obvious, consistently-named set of web-related escape/encode functions for use in plain PHP templates, like html(), attr(), js(), etc... having to type and read htmlspecialchars() and json_encode() while you're trying to visually parse a template is really inconvenient. That's all it is though, inconvenience. Nice to have, not must have. I'd be much more interested in a general solution to the problem of being unable to (or at least strongly demotivated from) using actual namespaced functions in this and many other cases - that's a missing feature and a more general problem, whereas in my opinion an operator or shorter function-names are just a work-around... (and please, nobody say "use a template engine" - I *am* using a template engine, it's called PHP!)