Jani Taskinen wrote: > I'd rather see these magic hacks to be removed altogether.. > +1 for removing short-tags and the hacks. >
These aren't hacks from a technical perspective. I personally am also for <?php= ?> its quite useful as a shortcut instead of <?php echo ?>, i don't see what's hacky about this (plus sometimes you need to write hacky code just to get something simple done). -Sterling > --Jani > > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Derick Rethans wrote: > > >>On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote: >> >> >>>>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. >>>> >>>If you want your PHP code to work everywhere you need to use <?php. I see no >>>harm in allowing <?php= syntax (and would personally love to se Yasuo's >>>patch applied). >>> >>+1 from me too, it's better then having to do: <?php echo $blaat; ?> >> >>Derick >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> SRM: Site Resource Manager - www.vl-srm.net >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> > > -- 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]