I was more going along the lines of removing short tags altogether with the ini setting as they are not available out of the box except if you use a special compile flag. However, I didn't know they were used with template engines but wouldn't they just use `<?=` which is always available? I mean I don't really have any strong opinions about it. It just seems a bit odd considering we removed ASP tags in, IIRC, PHP 7.
Best regards George P. Banyard