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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] short_open_tag
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Hi Stas,

> In 99.999% of cases you'd get parse error on first <?xml, i.e. very first 
> line of the file. I have yet to see any other context where short tags 
> wouldn't work. So I don't see - what exactly would "not work or misbehave" 
> without giving an error? Can you produce any example of application or 
> other real code that would silently misbehave with short tags on but 
> behave OK with short tags off?

I had at least five PHP/XML applications that did just that during the PHP 5 
coding contest at Zend back in 5.0 days... Zeev asked me at the time to 
explain it more fully, and I sincerely regret never having made the time to 
look into it properly.

And no I don't still have those applications on my laptop. Sorry. But it's 
as a result of working on that contest that I'm against short-tags full 
stop - I still think they should've been deprecated from 5.0 on.

Not good evidence I know, but that's my tuppence-worth on the subject.

- Steph