> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brinkman, Theodore
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 26 April 2002 14:55
> To: 'PHP Developers Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] <?= and <%= both work, why not <?php=
>
>
> Sure, and its only an extra 4 character, really. But that's
> not the issue
> at hand. The issue at hand is that the inconsistency of
> supporting <?= and
> <%= but not <?php= encourages quite a few people to use the
> 'optional' short
> form tags, meaning that their code isn't portable.
I guy here who till recently poo-poo'd asp tags is now using them because
<%=$VAR;%> is emminently more readable than the alternative.
> For each person who says <?php= $variable ?> is hard to read
> at least one
> other person says they find <?php echo $variable ?> harder to read. I
> personally find the first easier to read when it is embedded
> in the middle
> of a long line of HTML (like an input tag for example).
Yep.
> What possible harm comes from improving the internal
> consistency of the
> language? Why is a two-line patch that would completely remove an
> inconsistency so bitterly fought against?
To emphasise; people here are adopting bad-old short tags in order to keep
readability of code. It makes it easy to see the code is passive, echoing
only.
Sam
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