Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags

[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9 Sep 2014, at 23:08, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've created a small RFC proposing the removal of the alternative PHP
> opening/closing tags:
> 
>    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags
> 
> It removes <% and <script language=php> and the other variations of asp and
> script tags.

Isn’t this a bit of a needless BC break? Not very nice on people with such codebases. It’s also worth pointing out that people might be using these to get around the XML <? issue (granted, you can disable short tags).

I’d vote for this if you wrote a convertor script to help people migrate. Otherwise I think we’re just being unfair on people who used these tags.

Actually, I’d like to see a Python 2to3-esque tool in general for PHP 7. The easier we make the migration, the more likely people will do it.

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