Ok. I have the feeling that I'm going to be making myself a bit unpopular
here with my first post, but I mean no offense or disrespect. I'm just
trying to understand something.
PHP allows <?= if short tags are enabled, or <%= if asp-style tags are
enabled, but doesn't allow <?php=. Why? I went so far as to look into the
source and as near as I can tell without getting my hands on a C compiler,
changing it so that the '{opentag}=' format was equivalent to '{opentag}
echo' would take a 2 line patch to one file. I submitted this change as a
feature request in the bug system (#16763), and got the incredibly
informative and helpful response of "this was discussed to death on php-dev.
it's not going to happen." 17 minutes later.
I've spent the next 2 days trying to hunt down any mention of it, and having
no luck because searching for <?php=, or ?php= turns up no results. So in
an effort to understand why and how the decision was made to leave a feature
partially implemented, I'm left with no resort except to post here and
probably bring down a can of whoop-ass on myself. My appologies to anyone
who is sick of this being discussed.
That said. Why?
- Theo
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