On Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 18:22 Michael Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's a thought - Instead of .phpc as an extension, why not <?phpc or > even <?psf (PHP source file). Explicitly tell the engine "nothing should be > before this other than a shebang, no further tags will be in this file. > > That also solves the inadverted echo problem and would be fully BC. > > Not convinced it would be useful, but it has fewer problems. > I could actually get behind an alternative tag that reads everything as PHP. It would at least solve the problem of accidental output prior to the opening tag, though I'm not sure how big of a problem that really is. Could we expect any performance benefits from not having to parse for any closing tags? I imagine it would be minuscule if anything >
