>
> > If the people defining the PEAR standards really were that interested in
> > standards, why include alternate ways of doing something? <?=$blah;?>
> > And if the 'short tag' method is useful enough for people, why 'exclude'
> it
> > from a standard? This notion of 'PEAR standards' does irk me some,
> because
> > it's been so long in coming, and people are deferring to it before it's a
> reality.
>
> First of all, I think that the PEAR folk are on a different endeavor than
> the PHP developers. The PEAR people seem to be trying to propose a good
> standard for a language that needs some improvement. They're doing a decent
> job, but I think PEAR should wait till PHP matures a bit.
>
> Second, there is one very good reason not to use short tags: XML. All the
> same, I'd rather just enable ASP tags than do away with short tags, as short
> tags are irreplacable in templates rich in content and sparse on code.
>
I'm not sure why XML is an issue. Does XML use the ? in it's syntax? XML
tags are, to my knowledge, of the <blah><blah/> style. Am I missing
something? I admit it's been a bit since I've gotten into dealing with
XML at any real in-depth level, but the short tags in PHP don't seem like
they'd be a problem. If they're a problem for PHP, I think a lot of ASP
shops will be caught short when dealing with XML.
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