> On 6 Aug 2019, at 21:46, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:34 PM G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The voting for the "Deprecate short open tags, again" [1] RFC has begun. >> It is expected to last two (2) weeks until 2019-08-20. >> >> A counter argument to this RFC is available at >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/counterargument/deprecate_php_short_tags >> >> Best regards >> >> George P. Banyard >> >> [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags_v2 >> > > Side-note: Even if this RFC fails, we should probably still make it an > error to use <? without short_tags being **explicitly** enabled, so that we > may flip the default to off at some later point in time. The current > default being "on" despite their use being discouraged is half the trouble. >
That’s a good idea. I was genuinely surprised to learn that wasn’t already the case, although the actual impact of that is quite limited given the fact that virtually all common deployments come preconfigured with short tags set to off. Zeev
