On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM Zeev Suraski <z...@php.net> wrote: > As Bob pointed out I'm rusty, but I do think that we can solve the short > tags issue in this way. At the lexer level, if we see the <?p++?> tag, we > set short tags to off for the scope of the file before moving forward. But > more importantly, this approach can allow us to implement different BC > breaking strategies (and not just for language features, but also for > built-in functions). > > That approach did occur to me to, but as I said in my earlier reply, I don't think this actually addresses the goals set by the short tags removal proposal *as I understand it*. Maybe it does, but for example one could still not start a file with "<?xml" as at this point the parser hasn't encountered a "<?p++" tag yet, so it doesn't know if it should disable the "<?" or not.
-Sara
