To tell the truth I'd be more excited by a proposal to kill <?php entirely, or more realistically, to support an alternate file extension that doesn't need it. That would be an interesting option for those who want to put "dribs and drabs of PHP sprinkled in HTML" completely behind them.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Tom Boutell <t...@punkave.com> wrote: > I have to agree with that. Also: does PHP need to be a templating > language anymore, given excellent templating language implementations > in PHP, like Twig? > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, John Crenshaw <johncrens...@priacta.com> > wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Sébatien Durand [mailto:sun...@live.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:55 PM >>> To: internals@lists.php.net >>> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP as a template language >>> >>> IMHO, PHP is a great template language. This is what makes it so simple and >>> powerful, compared to other web languages. >>> >>> So far, we have "<?php", "<?=" and various legacy syntaxes like "<?". >>> >>> A suggestion : deprecate these old tags and replace them with a more >>> elegant and a shorter implementation. >>> >>> For example : "<%" and "<%=" or "{%" and "{{" ? >>> >>> What do you think, guys ? >> >> Honestly this is the wrong question. PHP as a template language has much >> larger problems than this. The difference between <?php echo and <?= is 7 >> characters and entirely cosmetic. The difference relative to <?php echo >> htmlentities(..., ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8'); ?> however is 56 >> characters, security, and encoding bugs. >> >> Proper handling of output escaping is standard in modern template languages. >> The question shouldn't be "should we add a cooler short tag?". The question >> should be "What needs to be done to make PHP an industry leader in template >> languages again?". >> >> My two cents, >> >> John Crenshaw >> Priacta, Inc. >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > > > -- > Tom Boutell > P'unk Avenue > 215 755 1330 > punkave.com > window.punkave.com -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
