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Posted by Jochem Maas on 11/16/05 15:06
Curt Zirzow wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:39:36PM +0000, Richard Davey wrote:
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>>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.
>
>
> 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.
indeed, but it seems to me that all writings on writing solid ('enterprise level'?)
php code recommend with a capital R not to write your code embedded inline with you
xml/xhtml/html/whatever because it's often brittle and very hard to maintain (read
illegible). i.e. I think your mad if you have created 1000000 lines of XML liberally
interspersed with php code.
just a thought :-)
>
>
> Curt.
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