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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:25:33 +0200
To: "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping asp_tags in HEAD
From: tijnema@gmail.com ("Tijnema !")

On 4/14/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Chris Malton wrote:
>
> > The last time I used ASP tags: Never.
> >
> > I wish they'd just go forever!  People keep trying to use the on my
> > servers, fail and ask me to turn PHP's asp_tags on, I refuse, because I
> > run a shared PHP install, and so they move off elsewhere, rather than
> > change their code.
> >
> > As it is, PHP is loosing me business!
>
> Only because you're being stubborn here.
>
> > Just drop ASP tags, Short tags et al (except <?php ... ?>) and let's
> > live with it.
>
> Yup, so that we make life harder for people. Definitely the way to go.

ASP tags make it harder, short tags don't. I'd say remove ASP tags,
keep short tags. I've seen the craziest things around, i've seen
hosting providers that had ASP and PHP both parsing every file, not
only .php or .asp, but also .html etc.
But they also had ASP tags enabled in PHP, and people got trouble
executing their ASP script because PHP ran first, and executed the ASP
code (error, error, error...).

Of course, short tags can break with xml, but the short tags are used
way too much, so removing them will break 1000s of scripts. removing
ASP tags would break 100? I guess no more then that.

Tijnema