Hi,
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
My Github Handle is: hmennen90
I opened already a pre-rfc discussion for this topic: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/131024
Regards,
Hendrik
On Sun 14 Jun 2026, 22:38 Hendrik Mennen, <hmennen90@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
My Github Handle is: hmennen90
I opened already a pre-rfc discussion for this topic: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/131024
Regards,
Hendrik
Has there been a discussion about this already in the mailing list? What does it mean to be optional? If you haven’t started a discussion yet, first do that and then open RFC once the details are fleshed out.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun 14 Jun 2026, 22:38 Hendrik Mennen, <hmennen90@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
My Github Handle is: hmennen90
I opened already a pre-rfc discussion for this topic: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/131024
Regards,
Hendrik
Has there been a discussion about this already in the mailing list? What does it mean to be optional? If you haven’t started a discussion yet, first do that and then open RFC once the details are fleshed out.
There is a link pointing to the ML discussion 
Oh man, I am blind. Sorry for the confusion.
On Sun 14 Jun 2026, 23:24 Jakub Zelenka, <bukka@php.net> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun 14 Jun 2026, 22:38 Hendrik Mennen, <hmennen90@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
My Github Handle is: hmennen90
I opened already a pre-rfc discussion for this topic: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/131024
Regards,
Hendrik
Has there been a discussion about this already in the mailing list? What does it mean to be optional? If you haven’t started a discussion yet, first do that and then open RFC once the details are fleshed out.
There is a link pointing to the ML discussion
Hi Hendrik
On 14.06.26 22:38, Hendrik Mennen wrote:
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
Can you let me know what your Wiki username is? If you don't have one yet, please create an account so I can grant you the necessary karma.
Ilija
On 15.06.26 09:25, Ilija Tovilo wrote:
On 14.06.26 22:38, Hendrik Mennen wrote:
My name is Hendrik Mennen and I want to open a RFC for the <?php / ?> tags to be optional and not mandatory anymore.
Can you let me know what your Wiki username is? If you don't have one yet, please create an account so I can grant you the necessary karma.
For the record: Henrik has followed up with the new username in private (hmennen). RFC karma was granted.
Good luck with the RFC!
Ilija