Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:43677 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23083 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2009 17:15:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Apr 2009 17:15:41 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.58.161.125 wsip-64-58-161-125.oc.oc.cox.net Received: from [64.58.161.125] ([64.58.161.125:6094] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DB/C3-22673-B3373E94 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:15:40 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:15:33 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <49E352FD.6070008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E352FD.6070008@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 64.58.161.125 Subject: Re: Is it true that short_open_tag is deprecated in PHP 6? From: jeremy@pinacol.com (Jeremy) Glen wrote: > > It's short, and it doesn't conflict with XML. > I have to say, I don't understand all the hate on short_open_tag. So what if it "conflicts" with XML? PHP is not XML. If you use an XML construct in your PHP, escape it. PHP can generate a lot of other languages, too -- should every construct from these languages be forbidden in PHP as well? Jeremy