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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:48:03 +0100
To: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] short_open_tag
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> > I'd rather see <?php= than having this whole "short_open_tag" thing at all.
>
>  Does <?php= work? I though echo shortcut works only with short tags.
>  <?php= is not much worse than <?= so it'd be OK with me. Downside would
>  be template systems couldn't use it until 5.3 is widely deployed - which
>  means no template system can use it as standard for about 2-3 years at
>  least. Unless we put <?php= in 5.2, which would make me a happy camper,
>  but might be a trouble for others.
>
>
>  > I'd even use it myself. But I will not EVER enable the damn short tags
>  > again. And won't allow anyone else doing it either. And speaking of
>
>  What's wrong with short tags, can anybody explain me?

The main reason is that they are not valid processing instructions.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-pi

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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