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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 10:20:33 +0100
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Subject: short_open_tag default
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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Hi internals,

As mentioned in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77378, we currently have
inconsistent defaults for the short_open_tag ini option. While this option
is disabled both in php.ini-production and php.ini-development, the default
(without ini) is enabled, unless --disable-short-open-tag is specified
during ./configure.

I believe that our general stance is to discourage the use of
short_open_tag, so I'm wondering whether we should switch the default to
short_open_tag=off and thus be consistent with our php.ini-production and
php.ini-development files. We could retain the --enable-short-open-tag
configure option for people who would like to change the default at the
build level.

What do you think?

Nikita

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