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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:33:26 -0500
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To: Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the echo short tag
From: dukeofgaming@gmail.com (dukeofgaming)

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Should this go in "Accepted" then?.

Regards,

David

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, dukeofgaming <dukeofgaming@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to ask what is the community's feeling on keeping the echo
> > shortcut. I know short tags are kind of deprecated and I think it is the
> > right call, however, I really really think the echo shortcut <?= should
> be
> > kept regardless of plain short tags, which are kind of pointless. I've
> read
> > the RFC regarding this and I think the second + third option are the only
> > sane ones.
> >
> > Regarding syntax, I do like <?:$var and would maybe also advocate for
> > <%=$var or <% $var. I think  another option could be a valid namespaced
> XML
> > notation <php:var /> (which is still shorter than <?php echo $var?>), but
> > maybe this later has bigger implications that I'm too stupid right now to
> > realize (for better or worse).
> >
> > I'm personally still using them since the benefit and enjoyment of
> working
> > them supersedes the worst case scenario, which is a global find & replace
> of
> > <?= to <?php echo. I tell my coworkers to enjoy them while they still
> can,
> > however this is a luxury that can be only had with custom development,
> not
> > open-source projects due to the obvious problems with portability given
> that
> > short_open_tags is now off by default.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David Vega
> >
>
> I thought we alredy decided to keep the short echo.
>
> Tyrael
>

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