True, but that's not always under the PHP author's control.  I never use 
short tags anymore, but I make it a point to echo the prolog in just in 
case.

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

>That's correct, it's been around much longer than PHP AFAIK.
>
>Also if you turn off short_tags, which is recommended to be off anyway,
>then you don't even need to echo it.
>
>Jasper
>  
>


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