On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:37:04AM +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: >> if you enable short_open_tags in your php.ini, when you try to start >> AUR you will get an error: >> >> "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in >> ../aur/web/template/header.php on line 1" > > In my opinion there's no reason to use short open tags, so I'll pass on > this one.
This is a good reason why short open tags were a dumb idea. When your syntax clashes with a well-known one, you have a problem. -Dan
