zuora/php-tools — pull request #3 by mr-joshua (2013-08-06 20:48:56+00:00)
Title: Removing php short tags

I'm sure there's plenty of healthy debate about whether it's good practice to use short tags, but the fact of the matter is some systems aren't configured for it and the error it provides when it is used is difficult to debug (it just has a syntax error on the last line of the file). I spent a couple hours fiddling with my install before I realized there were a couple of short tags thrown in, and I hadn't enabled them in my php.ini.

I just changed these to the long form as it will never cause this issue. Sure, short tags are prettier, but this is more compatible.