Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >>I think it also good time to get rid of <? ?> and <?= ?> syntax >>(at least, announce <? ?> syntax is obsolete), add <?php= ?> >>syntax for replacement, since PHP4.1.0 is in release process. >> > > What could possibly be the motivation for that? Very few PHP users mix > XML and PHP in the same file. Sure, it happens, but it is by no means the > common thing to do.
When I start using PHP, I was currious why there is no <?php= ?> while there are <?= ?> and <%= %>. I realized, <?php= ?> syntax is really easy to implement while I was looking for what's wrong in memory management. I think <?php= ?> syntax is nice to have, since it can work with any php configuration. I also think programming language better to be symetric whenever possible. (If there are <?=, <%=, why not <?php=) > > The only possible valid point here is that the character encoding > specification in XHTML uses <?xml version=... encoding=...?> although this > can also be done through a <meta http-equiv...> tag so it is quite > possible to write perfectly valid XHTML without forcing people to use > <?php ...?> everywhere. I agree, I just do not prefer to use <meta> tags... If there is people prefer to use meta tags, getting rid of <? ?> is not good idea. "<?" start tag may confuse some new PHP users, but it's not a big deal. -- Yasuo Ohgaki __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
