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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 06:51:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
From: thruska@cubiclesoft.com (Thomas Hruska)

On 4/28/2019 4:52 AM, Benjamin Morel wrote:
> - it allows tools that automatically convert short open tags to standard
> open tags to actually work on PHP 8. Because if I'm not mistaken, if these
> tools are based on token_get_all() and "<?" is not recognized as a token
> anymore in PHP 8, these tools would stop working on PHP 8.

It's very much possible to use token_get_all() with short open tag 
support disabled and/or removed to convert from short open tags to full 
open tags and, in fact, has already been done.

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