Why are “echo” short tags permanently enabled as of PHP 5.4?

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Short open tags are not always enabled since PHP 5.4. The documentation talks about the short echo tags. Which is a different thing. (short open tags are <? style tags, short echo tags are <?= style tags, for echo-ing).

Then why are they enabled by default now? Well, there are a lot of scripts out there, where it benefits to use <?= $somevar ?> instead of <?php echo $somevar ?>. And because the short echo tags aren’t as bad as the short open tags, they chose to always enable the short echo tags. Because now developers (of frameworks and CMS-es) can count on them (or rather, when PHP 5.4 becomes mainstream).

However, the short open tags are still influenced by the short_open_tag setting in your php.ini.

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