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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] <?xml tags (was PDM Meeting Notes)
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Bastian,

  id like to see '<?php=' too.

marcus

Monday, November 28, 2005, 9:56:56 AM, you wrote:

> What concerns me most is that <?php= does not work, regardless if short 
> tags will be disabled or not in php6. I currently use <%= to counter 
> this, but I am most certainly *not* happy with it.

> So a clean <?php= solution would be ideal, so I wouldn't have to care 
> about xml/xsl files parsed and neither about my templates growing too 
> large because of php overhead.

> Sara Golemon wrote:
>>> I recall this being discussed before, but not what came of it: is there
>>> a problem with just ignoring <?foo where foo is anything other than php
>>> or =? <?foo or <?bar or <?whatever is a parse error anyway so I very
>>> much doubt there's any BC break. Unless someone's program relies on
>>> parse errors.
>>>
>> The problem there becomes legacy support for:
>> 
>> <?foo();?>
>> 
>> And before you say "just watch for parens" there's also:
>> 
>> <?foo::bar();?>
>> 
>> and a much more insiduous example:
>> 
>> <?die ?>
>> 
>> no semicolon, no parens, no paamayim nekudotayim, nothing but a 
>> perfectly valid looking PI tag.
>> 
>> -Sara




Best regards,
 Marcus