I think Andrea raises a valid point about BC. I agree that those old tags
should go, but I'd suggest we target that removal for PHP 7 and just add a
deprecated flag on 5.x.
nobody suggested removing them in 5.x, and while I agree that adding a
deprecated notice before the removal would be
Michael Kliewe wrote (on 12/09/2014):
If you check Github you will see round about 10.000 code results, but
most of them are tests (.phpt), example files, duplicate results, and
maybe 100 projects that really use them, and I would guess 90% of
these projects are rarely used and very old.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote:
I initially thought that I’m not really against removing them really, but
I think we should have a script to convert them first. Because someone,
somewhere, is gonna need it.
I have added a small script for porting prehistoric
On 12 Sep 2014, at 19:08, Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com wrote:
I have added a small script for porting prehistoric tags, see
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags#porting_tool
That’s great! To clarify: This only works on 5.x where asp_tags is available,
yes?
I am
On 10/09/2014 3:32, Andrea Faulds wrote:
Some further thoughts after discussing with Tyrael (Ferenc) on IRC.
I initially thought that I’m not really against removing them really, but I
think we should have a script to convert them first. Because someone,
somewhere, is gonna need it.
But
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote:
On 10 Sep 2014, at 01:21, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote:
Isn’t this a bit of a needless BC break? Not very nice on people with
such codebases. It’s also worth pointing out that people might be using
these to get around the
Am 10.09.2014 um 03:32 schrieb Andrea Faulds:
But then I’ve thought more about it. I’m usually OK with certain BC breaks, I
just don’t like this specific one. It doesn’t affect me, but, well, I don’t see
the point. It doesn’t really help language consistency or anything, (OK, sure,
only two
Hi Nikita
2014-09-10 0:08 GMT+02:00 Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com:
Hi internals!
I've created a small RFC proposing the removal of the alternative PHP
opening/closing tags:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags
Great RFC, +1. No need to defend these old nordic legacy
Hi internals!
I've created a small RFC proposing the removal of the alternative PHP
opening/closing tags:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags
It removes % and script language=php and the other variations of asp and
script tags.
Nikita
On 9 September 2014 23:08, Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com wrote:
Hi internals!
I've created a small RFC proposing the removal of the alternative PHP
opening/closing tags:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags
It removes % and script language=php and the other
On 9 Sep 2014, at 23:08, Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com wrote:
I've created a small RFC proposing the removal of the alternative PHP
opening/closing tags:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags
It removes % and script language=php and the other variations of asp and
On 10 Sep 2014, at 01:21, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote:
Isn’t this a bit of a needless BC break? Not very nice on people with such
codebases. It’s also worth pointing out that people might be using these to
get around the XML ? issue (granted, you can disable short tags).
I’d vote for
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