From 7abfa104a665647bcf61a9ef1a964253999d5a38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:57:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix #66097 update information on short tags

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@332148 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/basic-syntax.xml | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/basic-syntax.xml b/language/basic-syntax.xml
index 4d7f9af0f6..9b3510a7cc 100644
--- a/language/basic-syntax.xml
+++ b/language/basic-syntax.xml
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@
     of opening and closing tags is ignored by the PHP parser.
    </para>
    <para>
-    PHP also allows for short tags <literal>&lt;?</literal> and <literal>?&gt;</literal>
-    (which are discouraged because they are only available if enabled with
-    <link linkend="ini.short-open-tag">short_open_tag</link> &php.ini; configuration
-    file directive, or if PHP was configured with the <option>--enable-short-tags</option>
-    option.
+    PHP also allows for short tags <literal>&lt;?</literal> and <literal>?&gt;</literal>.
+    Historically, the use of short tags was discouraged because configuration could prohibit 
+    their operation; since 5.4.0 short tags are always available.
    </para>
    <para>
     If a file is pure PHP code, it is preferable to omit the PHP closing tag at the