Re: [RFC] Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)

Hi! > Like I said, I can see arguments both ways, but use as a command substitution operator is > hardly a universal thing. Nobody said it's "universal thing". Virtually nothing is "universal thing" among over 9000 programming languages that exist. I just claimed it's a common thing which reasonably experienced user have high chance of encountering and recognizing. Arguing that non-universality would be the reason to remove syntax from PHP is like arguing we should remove the use of whitespace because some languages have significant whitespace (like Python) and you can't google whitespace (especially if you don't know the word "whitespace") so clearly this is super-confusing and should be removed. I don't mean this as a personal criticism on the RFC author, who clearly took some thought about it and is entitled to his own opinions, but arguments like this look a bit ridiculous to me. We have tons of stuff to improve in PHP without messing with things that aren't broken and don't need any improvement at all, and will have high BC costs. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com