Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:104763 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 451 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2019 05:53:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2019 05:53:13 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net,"G. P. B." , References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:44:14 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 99.39.88.55 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive? PHP internals From: xellisx@gmail.com (Kenneth Ellis McCall) G. P. B. wrote: > currently going through the PHP doc to remove mentions of PHP 4 > and stumbled upon the short_open_tag ini directive [1] which only affects > the availability of ` From my understanding, the ` so maybe we should deprecate PHP's short tag altogether? I would like to see that. "Question mark equals what?". If you want to go further, dropping the PHP tag altogether would be nice, since it would prevent context switching between PHP/HTML/JS/whatever. That would force Wordpress to update their whole code base. >:{)>