On 10 Aug 2019, at 1:51, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net<mailto:poll...@php.net>> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM Zeev Suraski <z...@php.net<mailto:z...@php.net>> wrote: As Bob pointed out I'm rusty, but I do think that we can solve the short tags issue in this way. At the lexer level, if we see the <?p++?> tag, we set short tags to off for the scope of the file before moving forward. But more importantly, this approach can allow us to implement different BC breaking strategies (and not just for language features, but also for built-in functions). That approach did occur to me to, but as I said in my earlier reply, I don't think this actually addresses the goals set by the short tags removal proposal *as I understand it*. Maybe it does, but for example one could still not start a file with "<?xml" as at this point the parser hasn't encountered a "<?p++" tag yet, so it doesn't know if it should disable the "<?" or not. Good point, you won’t be able to start a file with an XML tag. But you could place the P++ tag before it. And we may be able to come up with other ways to designate P++ files. Zeev
