Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags, again

[Claude Pache]

> Le 6 août 2019 à 20:46, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:34 PM G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The voting for the "Deprecate short open tags, again" [1] RFC has begun.
>> It is expected to last two (2) weeks until 2019-08-20.
>> 
>> A counter argument to this RFC is available at
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/counterargument/deprecate_php_short_tags
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> George P. Banyard
>> 
>> [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_php_short_tags_v2
>> 
> 
> Side-note: Even if this RFC fails, we should probably still make it an
> error to use <? without short_tags being **explicitly** enabled, so that we
> may flip the default to off at some later point in time. The current
> default being "on" despite their use being discouraged is half the trouble.
> 
> Nikita


That would mean in particular that XML documents could no longer be 
preprocessed by PHP without boilerplate around its `<?xml ?>` declaration. I 
doubt that this is a more acceptable breaking change than deprecating 
short_tags.

—Claude
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