On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 5:45 PM Mark Randall <marand...@php.net> wrote:
> Hi Internals, > > I put forward the following RFC "Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)" for > discussion. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-backtick-operator-v2 > > I believe it is at least worth a discussion as to the pros and cons of > deprecating this functionality, especially in light of the existence of > better described and more well-known functions exhibiting identical > behaviour. > > This RFC only covers the issuing a deprecation notice, and its complete > removal would be contained within a separate RFC. > Usage of backtick operator in packagist top 2k packages: https://gist.github.com/nikic/7b0afaf4d8b1a1087cdb61cd1e776594 There are 72 occurrences including duplicates. Make of that whatever you will :) Nikita
