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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Option to enable echo tags when short tags are turned
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From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 11/14/10 5:43 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> At the beginning of the year, someone put in a request for an option
>> to enable echo tags when short tags are disabled
>> (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50662). I've written a patch and two
> 
> I don't think we really need more options - I think we should just have
> <?= always work. There's no valid XML file out there that contains <?=
> and only people that use it are PHP programmes that don't care for XML
> validity. Why not just make it work finally?
> Yes, I know that was debated 100 times. But I still think disabling <?=
> makes no sense, so here it goes.

Yup, I agree.  I see no reason to kill <?=

-R