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

> I see your point... but wouldn't it be better not to need that? 
> Johannes' idea seemed good to me, always assuming it's do-able.

Well, yes, it would indeed, but we have a lot of <?= templates now so 
either we allow <?= on no-short-tags (if XML guys out there will be OK 
with it I might be OK too, as IMO no valid XML would have <?=) or invent 
some other syntax - in which case a) it probably would be worse than <?= 
since you hardly can get shorter and "opening tag + =" is kind-of 
de-facto standard for such things by now and b) it's take time to 
educate people to use new syntax, especially that unlike <?= it won't 
work on PHP < 5.3 so people would stay away from it for a couple of 
years (heck, people still use PHP 4 out there! not talking about 5.0).

So we have this:
1. Leave it as is and be in World of Configuration Pain (TM)
2. Allow <?= independent of short tags (my +1, dunno about XML templates 
guys)
3. Invent some <?bleh and watch nobody using it
4. Accept runtime short tags
-- 
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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