Currently, the WordPress Coding Standard explicitly forbids the use of the PHP short echo tag (<?=) along with the PHP short tag (<?). This post proposes modifying this rule to allow the use of the short echo tag for single statements.
Prior to PHP 5.4, it was possible to disable the PHP short echo tag (<?=) using the PHP short_open_tag ini directive. This meant that scripts using this tag could not be used in code that must work across different PHP installations, because the content within those tags may be printed instead of executed, which could lead to code
