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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] short_open_tag
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

> The thing is that <?php echo would require a ; while <?phpecho wouldn't.
> And if you ronly argument is saving a few keystrokes then we should really
> get rid of short open tags completely. And definitively not making their
> use easier.

It is easier to use templates with <?= ?> then with full PHP syntax, 
they look cleaner. Just look how many other templates use "tag" syntax - 
either {SOMETHING} or <%= SOMETHING %> or some like that. Do you that's 
because they are too stupid or too lazy - or because they listen to the 
users? ASP, JSP and Ruby all have <%=, does it teach us anything about 
people liking short tags?

Look how many examples you short syntax - why is that? Because it looks 
better and easy to read. And the only objection to that is - it's not 
valid XML. OK, it is not valid XML - why should it be? Why should PHP 
programmer work harder and PHP code look worse than Ruby, JSP or ASP - 
just because of arbitrary requirement of XML compliance?
-- 
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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