Well, having read that thread (thank you), I tallied up the votes (where I
could tell what the vote was) and it was 13 for, 3 against, 2
undecided/don't care. Of the unsure, one person voted against, then
undecided, then for, the other voted don't care, then against. Of the
against, one voted against purely on stylistic reasons.
Why wasnt' this change implemented? It's not a feature anyone would be
forced to use, it improves syntax consistency, and the feeling from that
discussion was overwhelmingly for the change.
- Theo
-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Torben Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:40 PM
To: Brinkman, Theodore
Cc: 'PHP Developers Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] <?= and <%= both work, why not <?php=
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:27, Brinkman, Theodore wrote:
> 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
One long discussion starts here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=100405792100833&w=2
It looks like consistency was voted down because someone might
misread <?php=$var to mean <?$php=$var. Which doesn't seem much
worse than the age-old '=' vs. '==' screwup. Anyway, there's the
thread and you should read it and decide whether this needs to
get going again. :)
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