On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm currently going through the PHP doc to remove mentions of PHP 4 > > and stumbled upon the short_open_tag ini directive [1] which only affects > > the availability of `<?` tags as `<?=`is always available as of PHP 5.4. > > From my understanding, the `<?` tag is not available without the directive, > > so maybe we should deprecate PHP's short tag altogether? > > Why? What would it improve for people that are using it? For people that > aren't, it obviously won't change anything. So what would be the > motivation for this change? > I'm with Stas (and some others in disconnected sub-threads because email is hard). This RFC needs a better "why this is important" section. Yeah, I get that it being an option makes writing portable code harder, I get that the XML open tag is something that can be tripped on, but why is removing it a sufficiently better solution to the "problem"?
As we stand now, code using short open tags works when those tags are enabled. As we'd stand in the future, that code would not work. That level of BC break requires a strong justification. -Sara
