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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 04:05:16 +0100
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To: Kenneth Ellis McCall <xellisx@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate short_open_tag ini directive? PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
From: george.banyard@gmail.com ("G. P. B.")

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On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 03:44, Kenneth Ellis McCall <xellisx@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 `<?` tags as `<?=`is always available as of PHP 5.4.
> >  From my understanding, the `<?` tag is not available without the
> directive,
> > 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. >:{)>


As I don't know how to email I already sent a private response which
basically states
that the `<?=` is equivalent to `<?php echo` as shown on the note on the
ini setting:
https://secure.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag
(thinking of it this feature maybe could be better documented)

Also I could write an RFC for the deprecation as it is controversial but as
I said
before I would need someone to grant me RFC karma to my PHP.net account
girgias

Best regards

George P. Banyard

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