On 07/08/2019 09:11, Nikita Popov wrote:
To clarify: What I had in mind is that use of <? results in an error if and
only if short_tags is left at its default value (of On). If short_tags is
explicitly Off or explicitly On, everything works as usual. Embedding <?xml
?> in PHP code requires an explicit short_tags=Off right now, so the
situation there shouldn't change, unless I'm missing something.
Since it would behave differently, it wouldn't make sense to say that it
defaulted to "On", but that actually leads to an interesting feature:
add an "error" mode to that setting. So the options would be:
- error: any use of "<?" other than "<?php" and "<?=" would raise an
error; compile-time default
- off: "<?" is ignored and passed through to output; ini default shipped
by most packages
- on: "<?" is equivalent to "<?php"; no longer any kind of default
We could either leave the recommended ini setting in the official
distribution as "off" (more compatible) or set it to "error" (to make
mistakes safer and easier to spot).
Regards.
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Rowan Collins
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