[aur-dev] [PATCH] Workaround for xml tag

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:37:04AM +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
>> if you enable short_open_tags in your php.ini, when you try to start
>> AUR you will get an error:
>>
>> "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in
>> ../aur/web/template/header.php on line 1"
>
> In my opinion there's no reason to use short open tags, so I'll pass on
> this one.

This is a good reason why short open tags were a dumb idea. When your
syntax clashes with a well-known one, you have a problem.

-Dan