On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:27, Brinkman, Theodore wrote:
> Ok. I have the feeling that I'm going to be making myself a bit unpopular
> here with my first post, but I mean no offense or disrespect. I'm just
> trying to understand something.
>
> PHP allows <?= if short tags are enabled, or <%= if asp-style tags are
> enabled, but doesn't allow <?php=. Why? I went so far as to look into the
> source and as near as I can tell without getting my hands on a C compiler,
> changing it so that the '{opentag}=' format was equivalent to '{opentag}
> echo' would take a 2 line patch to one file. I submitted this change as a
> feature request in the bug system (#16763), and got the incredibly
> informative and helpful response of "this was discussed to death on php-dev.
> it's not going to happen." 17 minutes later.
>
> I've spent the next 2 days trying to hunt down any mention of it, and having
> no luck because searching for <?php=, or ?php= turns up no results. So in
> an effort to understand why and how the decision was made to leave a feature
> partially implemented, I'm left with no resort except to post here and
> probably bring down a can of whoop-ass on myself. My appologies to anyone
> who is sick of this being discussed.
>
> That said. Why?
>
> - Theo
One long discussion starts here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=100405792100833&w=2
It looks like consistency was voted down because someone might
misread <?php=$var to mean <?$php=$var. Which doesn't seem much
worse than the age-old '=' vs. '==' screwup. Anyway, there's the
thread and you should read it and decide whether this needs to
get going again. :)
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