Adherence To CI Style Guide

[eluser]Nick Husher[/eluser]
Short tags are infinitely more readable than full PHP tags. For example:

Code:

<?=$this_is_readable ?>
<?php echo $this_is_not; ?>

If you're using third-party templating system (Smarty, for instance), long tags are fine. But then you're committing the cardinal sin of programming, which is reinventing the wheel. PHP is a templating system. Or it was, until someone decided to make it an application platform and started getting all down on the short tag syntax.