PHP Short tags

The poll view uses PHP short tags for the section starting with
// showing the previous answers (if not hidden)
on makemeeting-pollpanel.tpl.php and thus the PHP is displayed instead of executed if short tags are disabled in php.ini. The part I didn't dig into is that in that code it is using the long tags, so I don't quite know how those are getting stripped (not a big drupal guy). I just enabled short tags to resolve it, but I think they are supposed to be deprecated and thought I would let you know.