I asked similar questions on Twitter, where Zeev replied the following: https://mobile.twitter.com/zeevs/status/1158688885658046464
It feels like much of the counter arguments are based on guesses without any real data to point to. On the other hand it's unfair to dismiss the counter arguments altogether because of this, as there's no way to gather accurate data about the usage of short open tags, let alone know how many developers using them actually plan on ever upgrading to 7.4… Kind regards Brent On 8 Aug 2019, 12:27 +0200, Côme Chilliet <c...@opensides.be>, wrote: > Le mercredi 7 août 2019, 15:57:02 CEST Chase Peeler a écrit : > > Pretty much everyone (if not actually > > everyone) that is against this RFC has stated that they don't actually use > > short tags, and do not advocate that anyone else use them either. > > This is what bugs me, the counter argument page from Zeev states «I never use > short tags in any PHP code that I write, and as far as I recall - I never > have. », > and at the same time «put hundreds of thousands of people through additional > pain when upgrading.» > > Is there any data that support the theory that hundreds of thousands of > people use short tags? > > Did anyone in this discussion stated that he was using them? > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
