Hi!
I don't think I've ever said I don't like short tags. It's not the issue
here. The issue is that allowing to change it during runtime adds more
WTF to PHP. WTF factors are bad.
OK, there were people saying short tags are mortal sin, devil's device
to lure pure souls into the hell and what not. Good that you don't :)
Speaking of the WTF, I don't really see any major WTF since:
1. 99.9% of the code (except for parser XML templates) works with any
tags settings. One that wouldn't work will bail out immediately with
clearly recognized error message, so the problem would be easy to locate
and fix.
2. For any code messing with this value - and this code should be only
one place in whole application, the template engine - it is very easy to
restore it afterwards, and any programmer smart enough to write in PHP
would know to do that.
3. There are a bunch of runtime settings that some code can influence
other code with - most prominent being include path - and we had very
little problem with them being INI_ALL.
4. This change actually does not remove any existing scenarios and adds
one previously impossible - having short tag templates in the context
where enabling short tags for whole application is not desired.
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