Hi internals, As mentioned in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77378, we currently have inconsistent defaults for the short_open_tag ini option. While this option is disabled both in php.ini-production and php.ini-development, the default (without ini) is enabled, unless --disable-short-open-tag is specified during ./configure.
I believe that our general stance is to discourage the use of short_open_tag, so I'm wondering whether we should switch the default to short_open_tag=off and thus be consistent with our php.ini-production and php.ini-development files. We could retain the --enable-short-open-tag configure option for people who would like to change the default at the build level. What do you think? Nikita
