A little wish for short end tags (Was: RE: SDD bogus)

[Tim Bray]

At 10:38 PM 5/8/98 +0200, Jarle Stabell wrote:
>I would love to see empty end tags making it into the standard in the 
>future.

Speaking as one of those who opposed this, now I agree with you.  
Among other things, perl is going to have a built-in parser so no 
matter how D the PH is, this problem is just invisible.  But it
was a good decision at the time. -T.


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