Re: [PHP4BETA] <?=

On Jun 11, Zeev Suraski wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jim Winstead wrote: > > > On Jun 11, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > Anybody against adding this operator to PHP's short tag mode? (equivalent > > > to ASP's <%=). > > > > You or Andi were back when I added it to PHP3. :) > > Well, people change :) I do realize you were right back then and we > were wrong. Wow, talk about an email to print out and hang on my wall! :) Actually, the arguments against it are reasonable (and the savings is only four characters), but now that ASP has proliferated a similar syntax, it's worth adopting it. And it will give people one more reason to make the leap to PHP4. I'm sure this will be a persuasive one for some people even though its so minor. Oh, but on the session id thing, what's wrong with "<?=session_id()?>"? Aren't constants handled at "compile"-time, whereas the session id might not be decided upon until execution time? Jim