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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
From: php-lists@koalephant.com (Stephen Reay)


> On 24 Apr 2019, at 21:00, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 24/04/2019 14:41, vsuraski@gmail.com wrote:
>> A 68% majority which barely clears the 2/3 requirements for something =
as fundamental as that - with so many core devs against it - we'll =
deserve all the criticism that will be coming our way in 7.4/8.0 from =
end users wondering why we needlessly broke their apps and made =
migration a bit more of a headache.
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> This is yet another negative move in my forward planning and just =
another cross against even bothering with PHP8 ... and PHP7.4 is only =
going to complain about things so while I've not even started testing on =
PHP7.3, that is likely to be the last version of PHP I will be using ... =
once all the warnings are dealt with on PHP7.2 ... I don't think even =
the carrot of 'JIT' this time trumps being beaten around the head with =
more and more BC changes we will to have to manage and adding 'php' to =
every <? that is not a simple <?=3D in template files goes heavily =
against all the other attempts at removing descriptive text elsewhere.
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Of all the things to =E2=80=98refuse to upgrade=E2=80=99 over this seems =
pretty silly. There are multiple tools that will automatically fix this =
across an entire codebase in seconds. Heck, a sed 1 liner would do it if =
you want to DIY it.