Short tags

First of all dman, I want to say thanks for a great mod. My very minor issue is that utility.inc starts with <? and not <?php . I know it sounds trivial and it only took me a short time to figure this out, but it was a little frustrating.
Some people say we should only use the long tags so as to not confuse the web server with XML which uses these short tags, so some admins set only long tags for php code. I just ran it thru the coder mod and it didn't complain but maybe it should have.
Just my $.02 otherwise as I've said, great mod, thanks again.