Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecate the backtick operator

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:35 PM, David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com> wrote: > It too could causes confusion with single-quote in some fonts, sizes and > styles. > > Is more easy to identify shell_exec() than backtick usage, anyway. > > It have exactly the same behaviour than shell_exec(). Do not need adapt > usage beyond of the replacement itself. > Those reasons are enough to move my -1 to a -0.5 (meaning I'd consider abstaining on a vote). The argument about reserving foo for unicode strings in some far-flung future don't hold any water. A. We tried Unicode, it went poorly, and we learned that ext/intl does the job quite well. As someone who put a lot of work into PHP 6, I don't see a reason to change that assessment. B. If we DID take a second stab at unicode, we have syntax for unicode strings already, ( u"Unicody", b"Binaryish" ) which doesn't require coopting syntax that's been around for most of the language's lifetime. -Sara