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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Option to enable echo tags when short tags are turned
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From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:37:17 -0000, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>  
wrote:

> 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 <?=
>

The problem with <?= is that more often that not, you need to run the text  
through htmlentities or similar, so it would be of very limited usefulness  
even if it could be relied on (i.e. it always worked).

-- 
Gustavo Lopes