Posted by Richard Davey on 11/15/05 19:39

Hi Jim,

Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 5:25:58 PM, you wrote:

> I don't know, but those who do should not use short tags. And those
> who hope to should not get into the habit of using short tags.

And for the vast majority remaining, who write closed-apps for
clients??

> It will be when you have to sort through 1,000,000 lines of code in
> 400 files to change '<?' to '<?PHP'. Better to save the grief and do
> it right to start with, no?

There is no "right" or "wrong" for this, it's down to personal
developer preference. Nothing more, nothing less. It's only "right" if
you're building an app for distribution to unknown end-users. I don't
think that covers the majority of work we all do here somehow.

Cheers,

Rich
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Zend Certified Engineer
PHP Development Services
http://www.corephp.co.uk

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