.: B i g D o g :. wrote:
IMHO, i think that short tags should be taken out of php and just useagreed 100%
the <?php to start the parser.
if a patch is added then the parser just has more to look out for. What
is the XML standard changes to something else. We cannot see what is
coming next.
But if short_open_tags is turned off by default then that might solve
the majority of the problem.
However, i think that the solution lies in removing the short tag and
not adding a patch to the parser.
- no more short tag support
- no patch for extra <?xml parsing
It might seem like we're breaking other people's PHP scripts now, but in the future, peoples PHP scripts are *less* likely to break because we are doing things more consistently.
Short tags were a mistake. It's not too late to fix it. If we ignore the problem, it will come back again and again.
short term losses for long term gains.
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