On 24.07.2019 at 15:27, G. P. B. wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 05:51, <vsura...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> - [Short tags] You need to purposely turn it on in your own deployment - >> people and companies who use it use it exclusively for internal purposes. > > This is just plain wrong since PHP 5.4 as it is enabled by default and you > need to actively turn it OFF as which can be seen on https://3v4l.org [1] > as it doesn't use any INI configuration files. Now as stated in the RFC: > >> Currently the <? short open tag is controlled by the short_open_tag > > ini setting. This ini setting is *enabled* by default (if no ini files is >> used), > > but *disabled* in both php.ini-development and php.ini-production. > > > which is probably why most of us - and most users - think that it needs to > be implicitly enabled.
Maybe the configuration option --(en|dis)able-short-tags adds to this confusion. Thanks, Christoph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php