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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] short_open_tag
From: stefan.walk@gmail.com (Stefan Walk)

Johannes Schlüter schrieb:
> Now we have the big issue: Do we want to have short open tags forever?
> Well, without tooo much thinking my idea would be to drop "<?" but keep
> "<?=", "<?=" shouldn't conflict with <?xml tags in the same file, but
> make it simple to do templating using PHP, on the other hand when not
> echo'ing stuff you already have to write more soo the four additional
> characters ("php ") don't matter that much - especially every decent
> editor/ide should be able to give you a completion on that, if you want.

<ul>
<? foreach ($items as $item): ?>
<li><?=$item?></li>
<? endforeach ?>
</ul>

you can have short stuff without outputting stuff too.

Regards,
Stefan

P.S.
This patch will be the most useful addition to PHP that has been added 
for a long time, provided the purists and 
i-don't-know-how-to-write-testcases-the-right-way folks don't succeed in 
shooting it down.