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Posted by Curt Zirzow on 11/15/05 20:05
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:39:36PM +0000, Richard Davey wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 5:25:58 PM, you wrote:
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> > 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.
There is the issue if you are dealing with xml, consider php script is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding....?>
<? echo $something_xml_ish ?>
which is exactly why <?php was born.
Curt.
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