Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
I see your point... but wouldn't it be better not to need that?
Johannes' idea seemed good to me, always assuming it's do-able.
Well, yes, it would indeed, but we have a lot of <?= templates now so
either we allow <?= on no-short-tags (if XML guys out there will be OK
with it I might be OK too, as IMO no valid XML would have <?=) or invent
some other syntax - in which case a) it probably would be worse than <?=
since you hardly can get shorter and "opening tag + =" is kind-of
de-facto standard for such things by now and b) it's take time to
educate people to use new syntax, especially that unlike <?= it won't
work on PHP < 5.3 so people would stay away from it for a couple of
years (heck, people still use PHP 4 out there! not talking about 5.0).
So we have this:
1. Leave it as is and be in World of Configuration Pain (TM)
2. Allow <?= independent of short tags (my +1, dunno about XML templates
guys)
I'd be ok with that too. It's not a valid PI tag, as far as I know, but
I don't think that is a problem.
One interesting observation is that there was a slight BC break related
to short tags between PHP 4 and 5 that I hadn't noticed before.
<?= /* 123 */ ?>
Works in PHP4 but results in a syntax error in PHP 5.
-Rasmus
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