RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)
| From: | Reinis Rozitis | Date: | Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:18:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2) | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olumide Samson [mailto:oludonsexy@gmail.com]
>
> it should be deprecated for exec usage since they both do same thing
With that logic <?= should also be deprecated in favor of echo because it does the same thing and
is hard to find in internet search engines (was in some other argument).
> This isn't high cost breaking changes coz it has a verifiable, ready alternative to
> upgrade to without huge Regex searches.
Since `` are used for literal strings (for poorly chosen reserved words as field, table names (which
happens from time to time)) in MySQL (multiline) queries I doubt there is a simple way to
distinguish and replace everything to exec().
rr