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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Michael Kliewe wrote (on 12/09/2014):
> If you check Github you will see round about 10.000 code results, but 
> most of them are tests (.phpt), example files, duplicate results, and 
> maybe <100 projects that really use them, and I would guess >90% of 
> these projects are rarely used and very old.
> https://github.com/search?p=1&q=%22%3Cscript+language%3Dphp%3E%22&ref=searchresults&type=Code 


This file made me chuckle: modern PHP tags to contain the doc block, 
then dropping into <script> tags for the actual code:

https://github.com/linagora/OBM/blob/next/ui/php/obm.php

More seriously, that's an example of a project which appears to be 
currently maintained, relying on these tags throughout. Not clear if 
it's tested against the latest PHP, but no obvious indication that it's not.

I'm in two minds on this one - removing cruft like this certainly makes 
the language feel more modern and maintained, but whether it's worth 
breaking the BC on this just for the sake of it, I'm not sure...
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]