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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is there a technical reason <?= considered a "short
 tag"?
From: michael@mjburgess.co.uk (Michael)

"In summary: It's a topic people don't want to talk about. :)"

The <?= issue is really quite significant however, it seems quite a 
common topic of confusion at freenode's ##php. Lots of ZF examples and 
other mainstream code uses <?= and it seems a very good idea to use 
it... however it's very difficult to guarantee it will be available to 
all users (something important in the open source world).

It's a growing issue that needs to be addressed.

Michael