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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:15:21 +0200
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive?
From: drealecs@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Alexandru_P=C4=83tr=C4=83nescu?=)

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Hi,

I guess that `short_open_tag` ini settings can be deprecated/removed.
But that would mean that short open tags will be always available, not that
it will be removed.

Regards,
Alex

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:39 PM Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 10:12, Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > PHP based template engines today most likely use only <?php and <?=
> > because of this topic today exactly. Possibility of being deprecated
> > :) I think the short opening tags are good to go so things are more
> > simple.
> >
>
>
> A quick search of the list archives showed the opposite: reassurances that
> short open tags are *not* deprecated, and vocal support for keeping them.
>
>
>
> > A side question is there any plan to move the idea of removing opening
> > <?php tag for PHP only files or is this off topic here? PHP has long
> > moved out of the template engines world and left that task to more
> > dedicated so called compiled or parsed template engines (such as Twig
> > or Blade), so maybe something to think about as well.
> >
>
>
> I think that's a different discussion - and also one that's happened a few
> times in the past. I think the general conclusion was that the gain isn't
> big enough to bother changing every tool that works with PHP.
>
> Regards,
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> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>

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