On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:26:01AM -0400, Tom Boutell wrote:
> Now that the flamewar has died down a little I'd like to try to have a
> civil discussion about this idea - *without* my admittedly
> inflammatory suggestion to kill <?php altogether.
>
> So here is what I am seriously suggesting:
>
> * The default behavior doesn't change. The parser starts out in HTML mode.
>
> * If the CLI sees a .phpc file extension, the parser starts out in PHP
> mode (no opening <?php is required). It is still possible to shift
> into HTML mode after that with ?>.
Why ? What is the benefit ? You don't have to put <?php at the start of a php
file, so you save a few bytes...
Today PHP does not look at file extensions - so why change that behaviour ?
Extra complication with no real benefit.
Thanks for the idea - but no thanks.
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> Tom Boutell
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What country would that be ? On a list like this numbers should start +
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