It sounds like you are proposing to gradually kill the use of PHP for templating entirely, which I don't think is something people would vote for. I sometimes use perfectly good older frameworks that do use .php files for templating in a reasonable way, and I'm one of the advocates for migrating away from starting everything with <?php. I would have to vote against it myself. There's no reason to kill good code that passes its tests just because it uses inline HTML. I won't even know I have that code in my project from some third party library until I find out the hard way. No, just no. (:
I did propose one new keyword, but by proposing one keyword with a future-friendly syntax instead of four new keywords I'm attempting to help with the pollution problem. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Luke Scott <l...@cywh.com> wrote: > Tom, > > As I've said before I don't think new keywords are the answer. They > will just pollute the language even further. > > I also don't think an ini setting is a bad thing either. It is often > used in PHP as a way to transition from way of doing things to > another. First you introduce it with it being off by default, then on > by default, then deprecate the old behavior. It's quite normal in > PHP's history. > > In another email someone mentioned doing two rfcs. In both cases are > we talking about removing <?php ? Because it's become somewhat > confusing to keep track of what is being talked about. If that is the > case, continue reading. > > I would prefer the starting <?php tag be optional rather than removed. > Just explicitly forbid the ending ?> tag and treat text before the > opening <?php tag differently. Perhaps ignore it (rather than print) > or throw an error. > > That is at least how I would prefer the "code" mode as most > non-template files only start with <?php. It allows for backwards > compatibility. > > If you must add keywords it should be something like require_template > NOT require_code/require_file. Templates are the exception, not the > norm. > > Luke Scott > > On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Tom Boutell <t...@punkave.com> wrote: > >> I have written an RFC proposing backwards-compatible support for >> source files without an opening <?php tag: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/source_files_without_opening_tag >> >> This RFC is not yet listed at https://wiki.php.net/rfc. I am not sure >> what the requirements are to get it added to the "Under Discussion" >> session and get the ball rolling formally. Please enlighten and I'll >> do whatever is required. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Tom Boutell >> P'unk Avenue >> 215 755 1330 >> punkave.com >> window.punkave.com >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
