--- "Chris W. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also prefer <?= $variable ?> to <?php echo $variable; ?> except > that for the sake of cross-system compatibility* I now choose to do > <?php echo $variable; ?>.
I think explicitly using echo is much more readable. While it may be obvious to many what <?= does, it is one more little thing that might seem like magic to someone else. The less of that type of syntax, the better, in my opinion. If you want magic syntax, there's Perl. It has a lot of great shortcuts, if you're familiar with the syntax. With PHP, most things you don't understand are easy to look up. I'd rather search for "echo" than "<?=" if I was new to PHP. > * What I mean by that is if I give my code to someone else I want it > to work with as few changes as possible. Some php installs don't have > <? ?> turned on (short tags?). Right, plus I don't think <?php= will work (you might have been suggesting this). This was discussed on the internals list a year or two ago, and it was voted down. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
